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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. | top of page | return to text |

Figure 2 for George Hart

 

 

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