Linear perspective and the projective geometry of Girard Desargues / J. V. Field.
Abstract:
Detailed connections are traced between Desargues' projective geometry (1639) and his work on linear perspective (1636). The practical tradition of perspectiva is thus seen to have contributed to an important development in pure mathematics which presents certain analogies with contemporary changes in natural philosophy
Nuncius A. 2, fasc. 2 (1987), p. 3-40