A bird's-eye view; a perspective as if seen from above by a flying bird, or a type of fabric weave.
'Bird' plus 'eye,' creating a compound meaning either the viewing angle of a bird in flight or a textile pattern resembling what a bird might see. The phrase 'bird's-eye view' originated in the 16th century.
Bird's-eye perspective became crucial to Renaissance art and cartography—artists realized that if you could imagine seeing the world from a bird's height, you could create maps and city plans with mathematical accuracy, literally changing how humans visualized space because someone thought about what a bird sees.
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