Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi

wikipedia entry here

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Italian artist and architect

inventor of linear perspective (wikipedia link)

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See "Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea" by Charles Seife, pp. 85-86 for Brunelesschi's use of "the vanishing point," the center point of perspective that marks infinity (part of the "zero" concept that Europeans had ignored following Aristotle's philosophy)