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History Of Perspective
The document provides a history of optics and perspective from ancient times through the Renaissance. It discusses early developments in optics by Euclid and Ibn al-Haytham in the 1st and 11th centuries. In the 13th century, Witelo wrote Perspectiva, which became the standard text on optics. The document then covers the development of linear perspective beginning in the 15th century with Brunelleschi, and further advances made by artists like Masaccio, Alberti, Piero della Francesca, and Leonardo da Vinci. It also discusses camera obscura, anamorphism, multiple viewpoints, and techniques for drawing buildings and fences in perspective.
