Sentence examples for science of perspective from inspiring English sources

The great technology of this era was the science of perspective – the calculation of spatial proportion to create a theatre-like simulation of a space the mind can move about in.

As you walk towards it you eventually discover it is not there at all: Bramante has used the science of perspective to make shallow recess look like a grand space.

Even the science of perspective, which allows the artist to render a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface, is critically dependent on our point of view, injecting an element of subjectivity into an apparently objective process.

Later perspectival theorists, such as the painter Piero della Francesca and Leonardo, elaborated upon Alberti's work, but his principles remain as basic to the projective science of perspective as Euclid's do to plane geometry.

But there is a case to be made that this deformation is exactly what Pozzo was interested in revealing the limitations of and gaps in the then-mysterious science of perspective construction.

These ideas are controversial but they draw attention to the possibility that attempts to rid science of perspectives might not only be futile because scientific knowledge is necessarily perspectival, they can also be epistemically costly because they prevent scientists from having the epistemic benefits certain standpoints afford.

Out of studies of the science of pictorial perspective Duchamp created a virtual universe in which the only reality is erotic desire.

And at Cafe LaMama in the East Village there was "Optic Nerve," an hourlong theater work, showcasing the bravura craft of the master puppeteer Theodora Skipitares, about contributions by Leonardo and Uccello to the art and science of Renaissance perspective.

Judging from the recent debates, space paranoids share one trait with other members of the conspirator-American community: they profess a great deal of knowledge about an arcane subject (say, the science of visual perspective), while revealing ignorance of high-school science.

What I am suggesting is that analyzing foundational issues related to emerging sciences from a philosophy of science perspective remains of great relevance to societal, ethical, and policy questions in a manner that is undervalued.

This contribution focuses on the various uses of the term biotope from a history of science perspective and in the development of concepts in Ecology.