Sine curve
Date
1532
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528, German) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
2112
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 330mm
width (page): 215mm
width (page): 215mm
Subject
Description
Study of a sine curve derived from 12 points of a circle, described in the text as a ‘screw-line’.
Inscribed: ‘ALBERTI DVRERI/17/Cochlium praedictum cum suo fundamento’
Plate on page 16 of Albrech Dürer’s Institutionum Geometricarum libris (1532).
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Inscribed: ‘ALBERTI DVRERI/17/Cochlium praedictum cum suo fundamento’
Plate on page 16 of Albrech Dürer’s Institutionum Geometricarum libris (1532).
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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