De prospectiva pingendi

[1] It was written by the Italian master Piero della Francesca in the mid-1470s to 1480s,[2] and possibly by about 1474.

The subjects covered by Piero della Francesca in these writings include arithmetic, algebra, geometry and innovative work in both solid geometry and perspective.

[4][5] The script consists of three parts: De prospectiva pingendi was probably created in the years between 1474 until 1482.

[6][7][5] The writings were inspired by the book De pictura by Leon Battista Alberti[7] and references Euclid's Elements and Optics.

Much of Piero's work was later absorbed into the writing of others, notably Luca Pacioli, whose Divina proportione (1509) discusses Piero's use of perspective, as well featuring an uncredited translation of Piero's entire work on solid geometry, De quinque corporibus regularibus.