| Title: | Science – Mathematics – Perspective |
| Original Title: | Sciences – Mathématiques – Perspective |
| Volume and Page: | Plates vol. 5 (1765) |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
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| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Ann-Marie Ashworth. Architecture in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Scolar Press, 1993. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Science – Mathematics – Perspective." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.484>. Trans. of "Sciences – Mathématiques – Perspective," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5 (plates). Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Science – Mathematics – Perspective." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.484 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Sciences – Mathématiques – Perspective," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5 (plates) (Paris, 1765). |
Plate I: Perspective
Figure 1-6. [Interpretations of] the word perspective and scenography.
Figure 7. The scenography of a building: in other words a building represented by its interior and exterior, floowing the rules of perspective.
Figure 8, number 1. [Interpretation of] perspective and scenography
Figure 8, number 2. Shadow [projection, i.e. sciagraphy].
Plate II: Perspective
[Interpretations of the following terms:]
Figure 9. 10. Perspective.
Figure 11. Anamorphosis - added and taken from Wolf.
Figure 12. Picture Plane and horison line.
Figure 13. Iconography.
Figure 14. Anamorphosis [see note for Figure 11].
Figure 15. Dimishing scale.
Figure 16. Parallelism.
Figure 17. 18. Orthographic projection.
Figure 19. Anamorphosis.
Figure 20- 25. Iterative projection. [Note the numbering error in this plate - no Figure 21]