The nineteenth century witnessed a great change in the nature of geometry. From beginnings in perspective drawing of artists in the eighteenth century, mathematicians developed projective geometry, and with the work of Jean-Victor Poncelet geometry...

Projective geometry is a non-metrical form of geometry. First developed by Desargues in the 17th century, it did not achieve prominence as a field of mathematics until the early 19th century through the work of Poncelet and others. Projective geometry...

Is aesthetics part of geometry? It certainly was in the seventh grade math and art classes at Tower Heights Middle School. In fact, students were enthusiastically scrambling to visually define geometry in the format of a photographic scavenger hunt. A math workshop...

The author of this work, Robin Evans, may be unfamiliar to Renaissance scholars. Trained as an architect, he probes formulations of architectural projection, injecting ideas about practice into the current discourse linking history and theory. According to Evans, projective geometry originated in the...