The synthetic geometry of Desargues,
Kepler,
and others of the 17th century merged into the coordinate geometry of Descartes
and Fermat.
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.
1746 - 1818 -- Gaspard
Mongue
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