Analytic Geometry
1600-1700

The synthetic geometry of Desargues, Kepler, and others of the 17th century merged into the coordinate geometry of Descartes and Fermat.

Calculus to Geometry
1650 - 1800

1643 - 1727 -- Isaac Newton

1646 - 1716 -- Gottfried Wilheim von Leibniz

1661 - 1704 -- Guillame Francois Antoinne Marquis de L'Hopital

1707 - 1783 -- Leonhard Euler

Projective Geometry
1600 - 1800

The idea of the projection of a line on a plane is very old (400B.C.). The concepts of projective geometry were common property (like infinity).

1623 - 1662 -- Blaise Pascal


1643 - 1727 -- Isaac Newton


1788 - 1867 -- Jean Victor Poncelet

He is credited with the origin of projective geometry, which he figured out as a POW in the Russian campaign (1813 - 1814). He actually wrote this in 1822.

Descriptive Geometry
1800 - 1900

1746 - 1818 -- Gaspard Mongue

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