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
Desargues had no conception of the conic section of the locus of intersection of corresponding rays of two projective pencils of rays.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
The harmonic properties of poles and polars are given, but Desargues seems not to have arrived at the metrical properties which result when the infinite elements of the plane are introduced.
From An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry by Lehmer, Derrick Norman
Fermat, Roberval and Desargues took exception in their various ways to the methods employed in the geometry, and to the demonstrations of the laws of refraction given in the Dioptrics and Meteors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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