Desargues
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Gérard Desargues, a seventeenth-century French architect, was one of the early pioneers of projective geometry.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
He used the point at infinity to prove a number of important new theorems, but Desargues’s colleagues couldn’t understand his terminology and concluded that Desargues was nuts.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
A second important advance followed the recognition that conics could be regarded as projections of a circle, a conception which led at the hands of Desargues and Pascal to modern projective geometry and perspective.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
We distinguish vines by their fruit, and call them the Condrien, the Desargues, and such and such a stock.
From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise
The point of these remarks is apparent when we note that Desargues introduced some seventy new terms in his little book, of which only one, involution, has survived.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
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