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The world is changing constantly and inexorably, and the new technologies enter all of the fields of our lives. The changes also affect the ways of teaching traditional subjects, such as descriptive geometry. Until recently, this subject, being the basic communication language for engineers all over the world, had only been taught with traditional methods – using paper, pencil, compasses and ruler...
An outstanding eighteenth-century French scientist, Gaspard Monge is considered the creator of descriptive geometry. Named after their creator, Monge’s projections make him familiar at technical universities where the subject is taught. This article presents (in chronological order) Gaspard Monge as a scientist, educator, politician, multi-talented man, or in brief as ‘the Renaissance man’. Being...
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