Francesco Maurolico
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Francesco Maurolico was an Italian mathematician and astronomer from the Kingdom of Sicily. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. He edited
Engraving of Maurolico
Quadrati fabrica et eius usus, 1546
1654 edition of Conica by Apollonius of Perga edited by Francesco Maurolico
Polyhedron
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In geometry, a polyhedron is a three-dimensional figure with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices. The term "polyhedron" may refer either to a solid figure or to its boun
Problem 14 of the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, on calculating the volume of a frustum
Fourteen sided die from the Warring States period
Doppio ritratto, attributed to Jacopo de' Barbari, depicting Luca Pacioli and a student studying a glass rhombicuboctahedron half-filled with water.
The radiolarian Circogonia icosahedra