Programme for an ideal course of Descriptive Geometry in the Two Hundred and Twelfth Year of the Republic

It seemed to me that the best way to do it were to outline the Programme of an ideal course, a course of Descriptive Geometry, precisely, Two Hundred and Twelve Years after the tardy baptism of our science. This is, of course, pure utopia, because one year of study would not be enough to teach all the subjects mentioned below, but five years may be enough if the subjects, which belong to our disciplinary area, were extended to cover the whole course of a graduate degree (Laurea Specialistica). And I would finally like to warn that there are still a lot of gaps and excuse myself for not having remembered this or that subject matter of primary importance to somebody. My programme is divided into seven parts: - an opening lecture, - the fundamental theoretical principles that are common to all the models, - the theory and the applications related to the graphical models, - the theory and the applications related to the digital models, - the techniques related to the construction of the physical models, - the technique of transformation of a model into another, - some experiences of virtual laboratories. The paper discusses the above propositions.