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See Lino Cabezas, Tratadistas y tratados españoles de perspectiva, desde los orĂgenes hasta la GeometrĂa Descriptiva de Gaspard Monge (Ph.D. Thesis, Universidad de Barcelona, 1985), p. 181–209.
Rodrigo Gil’s “angular perspective” is known through the transcription made by SimĂłn GarcĂa in Compendio de Architectura y simetria de los templos conforme a la medida del cuerpo humano. Con algunas demostraciones de geometrĂa (1681). Manuscript 8884, Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional.
The Libro de Arquitectura (c. 1560) by Hernán Ruiz el Joven is kept in the rare books section of the Library of the Scuela Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. There is a critical edition of this book: Pedro Navascués Palacio, El Libro de Arquitectura de Hernán Ruiz el Joven. Madrid: Xarait, 1974.
Svetlana Alpers, “’Ut pictura, ita Visio’: Kepler’s Model of the Eye and the Nature of Picturing in the North” in The Art of Describing. Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983, p. 26–71.
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Andersen, K. (2010). The Geometry of an Art. The History of Perspective from Alberti to Monge. In: GarcĂa-Salgado, T. (eds) Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective. Nexus Network Journal. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0518-2_10
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