Jean-François Niceron was a French mathematician, Minim friar and painter of anamorphic art, born on 5 July 1613 and dead in Aix-en-Provence on 22 September 1646, aged thirty three. A mathematical prodigy, he studied under Father Marin Mersenne at the College of Nevers and joined the Order of Minims in 1632. He became a member of the circle of Mersenne and knew Fermat, Descartes, Cavalieri and Kircher. In 1638, at twenty five, he published La perspective curieuse, a richly illustrated manual that set out the geometric algorithms for anamorphic images and revealed for the first time the secrets of anamorphosis and trompe l'oeil, and that contained the first published reference to Descartes's law of refraction. Roberval enlarged the work for its 1663 edition, and Niceron's own Latin version, Thaumaturgus opticus, appeared in 1646.
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Jean-François Niceron (5 July 1613 – 22 September 1646) was a French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art, on which he wrote the ground-breaking book La Perspective Curieuse (Curious Perspectives).
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Jean-François Niceron (5 July 1613-22 September 1646) was a French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art, on which he wrote the ground-breaking book La Perspective Curieuse (Curious Perspectives).
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Jean-François Niceron (5 July 1613-22 September 1646) was a French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art, on which he wrote the ground-breaking book La Perspective Curieuse (Curious Perspectives).
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Jean-François Niceron (5 July 1613-22 September 1646) was a French mathematician, Minim friar, and painter of anamorphic art, on which he wrote the ground-breaking book La Perspective Curieuse (Curious Perspectives).
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on finding a scientific solution to the problems presented by perspective, Niceron worked out the geometric algorithms for producing anamorphic art and in 1638, at the age of 25, published a treatise titled La perspective curieuse, ou magie
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He studied under Father Marin Mersenne, a famed mathematician and Minim friar, at the College de Nevers.
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