Figures for George W. Hart's
In
the Palm of Leonardo's Hand: Modeling Polyhedra
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Fig. 2. "72-sided sphere" from the manuscript version
of De divina proportione. The polyhedron results from a construction
in Euclid's Elements and was drawn by many Renaissance artists, but this
is the first representation of it with open rather than solid faces. |
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