Branch of mathematics regarding geometric figures and properties of space

concept

Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.

Snowflake

MS OR Indic beta 229, Lilavati by Bhaskara

A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.

Unfolded brain, MRI

Brain tractography

The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.

Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.

Outlines and designs of foreheads, showing their wrinkles and contours. Drawing, c. 1794.

Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.

Zapogha, Nicolo

Le covrs de mathematiqve, contenant en cent figvres vne idée generale de toutes les parties de cette science, l'vsage de ses instrumens, diuerses manieres de prendre les distances, l'art d'arpenter, diuers moyens de lever et tracer vn plan, la reduction des figures par les triangles de rapport, la trigonometrie, les fortifications regulieres & irregulieres, leurs dehors, profil, esleuation, & sciagraphie. Contenant de plus vn traité de l'vsage du globe terrestre, et vn autre de l'optique dioptrique & catoptrique ... / par le R.P. Bovrdin, de la Compagnie de Iesvs.

Samvelis Marolois ... Mathematicvm opvs absolvtissimvm: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturæ, et perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, et figuras perfectissimas / [Samuel Marolois].

Thābit ibn Qurra (d. 288/901) : texts and studies, vol. 1 / collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin [and others].

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Geometry

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Images referencing Geometry

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Zapogha, Nicolo

A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.

Samvelis Marolois ... Mathematicvm opvs absolvtissimvm: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturæ, et perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, et figuras perfectissimas / [Samuel Marolois].

Thābit ibn Qurra (d. 288/901) : texts and studies, vol. 1 / collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin [and others].

Geometry

Images from the collections

Images referencing Geometry

Works from the collections

Zapogha, Nicolo

A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.

Samvelis Marolois ... Mathematicvm opvs absolvtissimvm: continens geometriae, fortificationis, architecturæ, et perspectivae theoreticae ac practicae regulas, demonstrationes, et figuras perfectissimas / [Samuel Marolois].

Thābit ibn Qurra (d. 288/901) : texts and studies, vol. 1 / collected and reprinted by Fuat Sezgin [and others].

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