Perspective -- Early works to 1800
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La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)- La Perspective Pratique (second edition, 3 volumes in French; Paris: A. Dezallier, 1679), by Jean Dubreuil
- Maniere Universelle de Mr Desargues, Pour Pratiquer la Perspective par Petit-Pied, Comme le Geometral (in French; Paris: Pierre Des-Hayes, 1648), by Gérard Desargues and Abraham Bosse (page images in Germany)
- New Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing on a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, in a More General and Simple Method Than Has Been Done Before (London: R. Knaplock, 1719) (page images in Germany)
- New Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing on a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, in a More General and Simple Method Than Has Been Done Before (third edition; London: J. Ward, 1749), by Brook Taylor and John Colson (multiple formats at Google)
- Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
- The Practice of Perspective: or, An Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art (third edition; London: Printed for T. Bowles and J. Bowles, 1743), by Jean Dubreuil, trans. by Ephraim Chambers
- The Practice of Perspective: or, An Easy Method of Representing Natural Objects According to the Rules of Art (fourth edition; includes Hodgson's "Theory of Perspective"; London: Printed for J. and C. Bowles, 1765), by Jean Dubreuil, trans. by Ephraim Chambers, contrib. by James Hodgson
- Rules and Examples of Perspective Proper for Painters and Architects, etc , in English and Latin (London: J. Sturt, 1707), by Andrea Pozzo, trans. by John James, illust. by John Sturt (page images at E-Rara)
- Stereography: or, A Compleat Body of Perspective, in All its Branches (2 volumes in 1; London : Printed for the author by W. Bowyer, 1738), by John Hamilton (multiple formats at Google)
- Examen des Oeuvres du Sr. Desargues (in French; Paris: M. et I. Henault, 1644), by Jacques Curabelle (multiple formats at Google)
- Dr. Brook Taylor's Principles of Linear Perspective: or, The Art of Designing Upon a Plane the Representation of All Sorts of Objects, As They Appear to the Eye (new edition; London: M. Taylor, 1835), by Brook Taylor, ed. by Joseph Jopling
- Linear Perspective; New Principles of Linear Perspective (2 books published in 1715 and 1719, bound together; some figures and first 16 pages of "Linear Perpective" main text bound out of order), by Brook Taylor (page images at Sapienza Digital Library)
- Brouillon Project d'une Atteinte aux Evenemens des Rencontres du Cone avec un Plan, par L,S,G,D,L (in French; 1639), by Gérard Desargues
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Filed under: Perspective- On the Rationalization of Sight; With an Examination of Three Renaissance Texts on Perspective (papers #8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938), by William Mills Ivins (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- Linearperspectiven, Anvendt paa Malerkunsten: En Raekke af Perspectiviske Studier (in Danish; Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1841), by C. W. Eckersberg, contrib. by G. F. Ursin (page images in Germany)
- The Theory and Practice of Perspective, by G. A. Storey (PDF at djm.cc)
- The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture (second edition; London: Printed for M. Taylor, 1835), by Richard Brown (multiple formats at Google)
- La Genesi Dello Scorcio nell' Arte Greca (in Italian; Rome: Tip. della R. Accademia dei Lincei, 1907), by Alessandro Della Seta
- (A)wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2001), by David R. Castillo (PDF at Purdue)
- La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
- Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (2 volumes, in Latin, published 1692-1700), by Andrea Pozzo, illust. by Vincenzo Mariotti
- (A)wry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2001), by David R. Castillo (PDF at Purdue)
- Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light; Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of Curvilinear Figures (first edition, 1704), by Isaac Newton (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)
- Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (in Latin; Rome: Sumptibus H. Scheus, 1646), by Athanasius Kircher (page images in Germany)
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (London: Printed for H. Herringman, 1664), by Robert Boyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Tratado Instructivo y Práctico Sobre el Arte de la Tintura: Reglas Experimentadas y Metódicas para Tintar Sedas, Lanas, Hilos de Todas Clases y Esparto en Rama (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. de Blas Román, 1778), by Luis Fernández
- Dissertation sur la Cause Physique de la Couleur des Negres, de la Qualité de Leurs CHeveux,et de la Degeneration de l'un et de l'Autre (in French; Paris: Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1741) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
- La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
- Description de la Vision (in French; London: Shorn, 1776), by Peter Degravers, illust. by J. Dezauche (page images at NIH)
- La Perspective Curieuse: ou, Magie Artificielle des Effets Merveilleux (in French; Paris: P. Billaine, 1638), by Jean François Nicéron (page images in France)
- Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflexion, and in Refraction, and Particularly in the Strange Refraction of Iceland Crystal (this translation ca. 1912), by Christiaan Huygens, trans. by Silvanus P. Thompson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Treatise on Light: In Which Are Explained the Causes of That Which Occurs in Reflexion, and in Refraction, and Particularly in the Strange Refraction of Iceland Crystal (this translation ca. 1912), by Christiaan Huygens, trans. by Silvanus P. Thompson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
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