When1: 1768
When2: 1800
Who: Gaspard Monge [Monge, Gaspard]
What: mathematician
Where: Paris, France
works\ Descriptive Geometry [1800]
Detail: He lived 1746 to 1818, studied developable surfaces, rediscovered projective geometry [1768], and was the "father of descriptive geometry".
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