Diagrams for distorted projections
Date
17th century
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p3
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 240mm
width (page): 174mm
width (page): 174mm
Subject
Description
Diagrams relating to anamorphosis. They show how to transfer an image (at the top called 'archetypus') onto a half circle (at the bottom) using a grid ('rete'), so that it would reflect the image correctly onto a cylindrical mirror placed at the centre of the half circle. Anamorphosis had been of interest to artists since the sixteenth century and the various rules for creating anamorphic images may be found, for example, in Jean-François Nicéron's Thaumaturgus opticus, sive amiranda optices (1646).
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