A new hypothesis on Dürer's enigmatic polyhedron in his copper engraving ``Melencolia I

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1999.2245MaRDI QIDQ1969918zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Peter Schreiber

Publication date 19 March 2000

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/8445b35877b915cd24f6d0d1b4cb7bddce3fe9b1

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

Review text

``Eine bisher nicht beachtete Eigenschaft von Dürers gestutztem Rhomboeder, ein Weg, wie er ihn konstruieren konnte, und eine mögliche Motivation für diese Konstruktion werden diskutiert. Der Text wird ergänzt durch eine Zeichnung in Grund- und Aufriss des gestutzten Rhomboeders.

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