{"title":"A Renaissance mathematician’s art","authors":"R. Mirek","doi":"10.24917/20841043.9.1.8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Piero della Francesca is best known as a painter but he was also a mathematician. His treatise \nDe prospectiva pingendi is a superb example of a union between the fne arts and mathemati‑ \ncal sciences of arithmetic and geometry. In this paper, I explain some reasons why his paint‑ \ning is considered as a part of perspective and, therefore, can be identifed with a branch of \ngeometry.","PeriodicalId":30403,"journal":{"name":"Argument Biannual Philosophical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Argument Biannual Philosophical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24917/20841043.9.1.8","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Piero della Francesca is best known as a painter but he was also a mathematician. His treatise
De prospectiva pingendi is a superb example of a union between the fne arts and mathemati‑
cal sciences of arithmetic and geometry. In this paper, I explain some reasons why his paint‑
ing is considered as a part of perspective and, therefore, can be identifed with a branch of
geometry.