Company:Andreas Albrecht (mathematician)

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Zwey Bücher: Das erste von der Ohne und durch die Arithmetica gefundenen Perspectiva, Das andere von dem dazu gehörigen Schatten.
(Two books: the first of the Perspectiva ... the other of the corresponding shadow)

Andreas Albrecht (Nuremberg 1586 – Hamburg 1628) was a German mathematician and engineer. Albrecht invented a variety of instruments, some of which are described in his treatises on architecture and perspective: Instrument zur Architectur (Nuremberg, 1622); Eygendliche Beschreibung (Nuremberg, 1625); and Duo Libri. Prior de Perspectiva ... Posterior de umbra ... (Nuremberg, 1625).[1]


References

  1. Fritz Schnelbögl. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Kultur der Stadt Nürnberg, Volume 10 Stadtbibliothek, 1967, p26

External links

"Museo Galileo - object description". http://catalogo.museogalileo.it/biografia/AndreasAlbrecht.html.