The Visual Language of Technique by Luigi Cocchiarella

Author:Luigi Cocchiarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Later on, a Sphere came to visit the Square, appearing to it as a circle of variable radius.Sphere. Exactly. The one Square produces a

Something-which-you-do-not-as-yet-know-a-name-for-But-which-we-call-a-Cube with eight terminal Points.

The most important mathematician in this subject in the last century is the “King of Geometry” H.S.M. (Harold Scott MacDonald) Coxeter, who gave a complete account of regular polytopes in many dimensions. He inspired some of the most important drawings by M.C. Escher, especially the one of Coxeter exhuming Geometry’s coffin [7], where on the gravestone you could read, Geometry 600 B.C.–1900 A.D. R.I.P (Fig. 10).

Fig. 10Coxeter exuming Geometry’s coffin (redrawn by Ksenia Philippova)

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