The term descriptive geometry is still used for this method of representing the vertical and horizontal projections of an object. However, the modern term for the method is orthographic projection.

Chasles in. describing the aim of Monge's great discovery, says:—“La géométrie descriptive, en effet, qui n'est que la traduction graphique de la géométrie générale et rationnelle ...

WHEN our Civil and Military Engineering Examinations are daily making larger demands for geometrical proficiency a new and exceedingly lucid Note-book on Descriptive Geometry comes well-timed ...

Bruce Longtin, Merle Randall, Intuitive and descriptive geometry of function space: Metric properties and transformation of coordinates, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. 31, No. 11 ...

Known as the father of descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) was born in Beaune, Burgundy in France. Attending college at an early age, Monge showed mathematical talent early on. He drew a ...