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
One very good reason for the disappearance of the work of Desargues is to be found in his style of writing.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
He also published without date a work entitled: Foiblesse pitoyable du Sr. G. Desargues employ�e contre l'examen fait de ses œuvres.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
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
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