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typography, the young Leone Battista Alberti wrote a treatise
on painting and perspective which was to be the most
influential of the age.
The other thing in Alberti’s book that marked the
coming of a new attitude far removed from that of the
Greeks was his description of the earliest known
geometrical scheme for depicting objects in a unified
space, or in other words what we today call perspective.
Just as it was a major event in the history of pictorial
representation, so it was in the history of geometry, for in
it was stated for the first time the now familiar process of
central projection and section, the subsequent
development of which has been the outstanding feature
of modern synthetic geometry. It is an idea that was
unknown to the Greeks, and it was discovered at a time