Proof!

How the World Became Geometrical

New Hardback Illustrated

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While the basic principles of geometry had been known since Euclid, the Florentine architect and engineer Filippo Brunelleschi was probably the first to precisely describe linear perspective. Amir Alexander shows how this Renaissance understanding inspired a new geometrical vision of the world that spread beyond art and architecture into politics and philosophy, representing a universal order that was deployed by both monarchists and republican revolutionaries to justify their stance.

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