Paperback • 2012 • English
Fantastic Geometry Polyhedra and the Artistic Imagination in the Renaissance
By David Wade
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Deals with a little-known, short-lived, tradition of imaginative geometry that flourished in 16th century Germany, during the Northern Renaissance. The key figure in this movement was the goldsmith Wenzel Jamnitzer, whose graphic fantasies were an imaginative response to the newly rediscovered geometrical theories associated with such important figures as Pythagoras, Plato, Archimedes and Euclid - all part of the great revival of interest in Classical knowledge that characterised the Renaissance...Show more
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ISBN
9781906069100
Publisher
Squeeze Press
Published year
2012
Language
English
Original title
Fantastic Geometry Polyhedra and the Artistic Imagination in the Renaissance
Format
Paperback
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