History of geometry
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Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers.
Part of the "Tab.Geometry." (Table of Geometry) from the 1728 Cyclopaedia
Rigveda manuscript in Devanagari
Statue of Euclid in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Woman teaching geometry. Illustration at the beginning of a medieval translation of Euclid's Elements (c. 1310)
Albrecht Dürer
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Albrecht Dürer, sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influ
History of geometry
…girih tiles possessed properties consistent with self-similar fractal quasicrystalline tilings such as the Penrose tilings. Renaissance An engraving by Albrecht Dürer featuring Mashallah, from the title page of the De scientia motus orbis (Latin version with engraving, 1504). As in many medieval illustrations, the…
Dürer's Self-Portrait at 28, 1500, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Self-portrait in silverpoint by the thirteen-year-old Dürer, 1484, Albertina, Vienna
The earliest painted Self-Portrait (Holding a Thistle), 1493, oil, originally on vellum, Louvre, Paris
Dürer's sketch of his wife Agnes Frey (″Mein Agnes"), 1494, Albertina, Vienna