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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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