Argument_88 Hi! I noticed that your book has some similarities with the book I analyzed (Lucidum prospectivae Speculum). They are both books from the 18th century with a Latin title. You also mention that yours is richly illustrated especially in the back of the book, just like mine. From your description, I could imagen that…
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Using “Ask Alice” for the first time, I struggled a bit with finding the best way to search for books that connected with “Lucidum prospectivae Speculum” from Paul Heineken. Firstly, I typed in the title of the book with “architecture” as the topic of conversation and the “Xenotheka Library” as Alice’s brain but only got…
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«Lucidum prospectivae Speculum”, the title of the book, means “A bright mirror of the Perspective”. There is no list of contents, but the texts are structured after the figures in the illustration. They are also respectively captioned with “Erklärung” (Explanation) or “Beschreibung” (Description) of that figure. Therefore, I assume the text is only there to…
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Book: Lucidum Perspectivae Speculum Author: Paul Heineken I chose this page (p.201) because of the interesting perspective and the detailed figures of the drawing. The second page (p. 81) I chose has a interesting drawing of a figure with a nice floor and section plan. The book is quite large, but is not very thick…