Brunelleschi's mirror, Alberti's window, and Galileo's' perspective tube'

SAMUEL Y. EDGERTONIt is worth noting in conclusion, however, that as astronomersafter Galileo demanded to see ever more distant planets and stars,the perspective tube had to be extended longer and longer withmagnifying lenses larger and larger. Finally, no less than Sir IsaacNewton (born the same year Galileo died) realized that anotheroptical component must be added to the instrument to increase itspower. In order to reveal ever more of the great beyond stillshrouded in enigmata, ‘Alberti’s window’ cum telescope needed to befurther enhanced by reinstalling ‘Brunelleschi’s mirror’ (Figure 22).Figure 22REFERENCESAlberti, Leon Battista On painting and sculpture: the latin texts of De Pictura and De Statua.1972 Transl. & notes by Cecil Grayson. London & New York: Phaidon Press.AntonineSancti Antonini Summa Theologica. Facsimile of Verona, 1740 edition.1959 Graz: Akademische Druck u. Verlagsanstalt. 4 v.Bredekamp, Horst Gazing hands and blind spots: Galileo as draftsman.2000 Science in context, v. 13, n. 3-4, p. 423-62.Edgerton, Samuel Y. The heritage of Giotto’s geometry: art and science on the eve of the1991 scientific revolution. Ithaca (NY) & London: Cornell University Press.p. 125-39.Edgerton, Samuel Y. Mensurare temporalia facit Geometria spiritualis: some fifteenth-century1977 italian notions about when and where the Annunciation happened.In: Lavin, Irving; Plummer, John (ed.) Studies in late medieval and renaissancepainting in honor of Millard Meiss. New York: New York University Press.v. I, p. 115-30.178 História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro