The polyhedron on Duerer's "Melencolia I"

The polyhedron with triangular and pentagonal faces on the Duerer's "MELENCOLIA I" engraving is said to be a cube with two opposite corners cut off.  A cube has 6 faces, 12 sides and 8 corners. A cube with two truncated tips has 8 faces, 18 sides and 12 corners. In the above numbers,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tine Kurent
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 1994-12-01
Series:Acta Neophilologica
Subjects:
Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/ActaNeophilologica/article/view/6568