ABSTRACT
Mathematics has had a signifi cant role in the cultural production of early modern Europe. It can also be argued that ideas from the world of visual representation led to advances in mathematics. Visual culture and mathematics were more closely connected in the fi fteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than they are today. In our specialist-focused universities, these areas of study are commonly thought to be worlds apart and are rarely brought together. 1 In the early modern period, however, the study of visual culture together with mathematics was by no means considered impractical, as it might be thought of today, as these fi elds shared common concerns and approaches. While specialization has worked against a more holistic approach, recently there has been a growing interest in the interdisciplinary relationships between the two areas.
