This Nurnberg native's work on descriptive geometry, published posthumously in De Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum Libri, was later given a sound mathematical basis by Monge.
This Nurnberg native's work on descriptive geometry, published posthumously in De Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum Libri, was later given a sound mathematical basis by Monge. In 1525 he produced a good method for approximating trisection of an angle, and he introduced the magic square to Europe in 1514 -- but not in a book. FTP name this artist, court painter to Maximilian I and Charles V, who introduced the magic square in his engraving "Melancholia."
This Nurnberg native's work on descriptive geometry, published posthumously in De Symetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum Libri, was later given a sound mathematical basis by Monge.
Albrecht {Durer}