Wenzel Jamnitzer, ‘Perspectiva corporum regularium, anno MDLXVIII’ [1568], etcher: Jost Amman, printer: Christoph Heussler (all images courtesy the Getty Research Institute Digital Collections) Title ...
Mathematicians have spent more than 2,000 years dissecting the structure of the five Platonic solids—the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron, and dodecahedron—but there’s still a lot we don’t ...