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Setting for "Invention" of Perspective Projection

• The Renaissance: new emphasis on importance of individual point of view and interpretation of world, power of observation-- particularly of nature (astronomy, anatomy, botany, etc.).

  • Massaccio

  • Donatello

  • Leonardo

  • Newton

• Universe as clockworks: intellectual rebuilding of universe along mechanical lines.

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