New light on the rediscovery of the Archimedean solids during the renaissance

DOI10.1007/S00407-008-0024-ZzbMATH Open1148.01003OpenAlexW2075620809MaRDI QIDQ942901FDOQ942901

Authors: B. E. Eshmatov 

Publication date: 8 September 2008

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-008-0024-z

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zbMATH Keywords

historyArchimedean solidsrediscovery during the the renaissance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of geometry (51-03) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of convex and discrete geometry (52-03)

Cites Work

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