About the Bibliography Of Perspective

The Bibliography of Perspective is the Perspective Research Centre’s specialist bibliography devoted to perspective and its many related fields.

Containing more than 15,000 titles, it brings together primary and secondary literature relating to perspective across art, optics, geometry, architecture, drawing, visual representation, imaging, science and technology.

It is available in two complementary forms: the published Physical Bibliography of Perspective and the searchable Digital Bibliography of Perspective.


Physical Bibliography of Perspective

The Physical Bibliography of Perspective provides the published edition of this major research resource, designed both for scholarly reference and for exploring the historical development of the literature of perspective.

A separate page provides information about the published volumes, their organisation and the available editions.

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Digital Bibliography of Perspective

The Digital Bibliography of Perspective provides direct online access to the PRC’s searchable bibliography database.

Researchers can search and browse more than 15,000 perspective titles represented by over 26,000 bibliographic records, using fields including title, author, date, publication place, publisher, library or location, and notes.

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Two Editions, One Research Resource

The physical and digital editions provide different ways of working with the same major body of bibliographical research.

  • The Physical Bibliography of Perspective provides the published reference edition.
  • The Digital Bibliography of Perspective provides a searchable online research database.

Together they form the Bibliography of Perspective: a major research resource for locating and exploring the literature of perspective across art, science and technology.

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