Nouveaux principes de la perspective linéaire: traduction de deux ouvrages, de l'un Anglois, du docteur Brook Taylor, l'autre Latin, de M. Patrice Murdoch, avec un essai sur le mêlange des couleurs par Newton

Abstract

Originally published in 1719 in English, this was Taylor’s major work on perspective. It was so concise that Bernouilli characterized it as “abstruse to all and unintelligible to artists for whom it was written...Its effect, nonetheless, was very substantial, since it passed through four editions, three translations, and twelve authors who prepared twenty-two editions of extended expositions based on Taylor’s concepts.” This is one of the three translations. The treatise of Patrice Murdoch occupies pages 108-127. See also Kemp, The science of art, pp. 148-150. (Charles Wood, cat. 167, # 188)