Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.20991

    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
    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.
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