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Origametria is the first-of-its-kind system that allows schoolchildren to study geometric shapes through the Japanese art of paperfolding.
Beehive Books is transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic retellings of Greek mythology through fifteen original paintings ...
Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of regular solids), created in 1568 by German goldsmith and printmaker Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585), is a study in shapes inspired by the five ...
What began as a search for Chinese sculpture ended with a book on Greek art and an enduring interest in the geometric forms that the ancient Greeks were obsessed with — an obsession that permeates the ...
Books Received Published: 20 June 1889 Greek Geometry from Thales to Euclid R. T. Nature 40, 172 (1889) Cite this article ...
Their work uses a wide variety of media, from acrylic paint on canvas, through steel installations to wood and brass inlays and text art, shown here Recollections 1 (2008) made of mirror mosaic ...
The second year of the interdisciplinary class, DSGN 395-64: Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing, introduced students to hands-on experiences from an iron pour to creating pieces for an ...
In “The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself,” Robin Reames contends that Greek and Roman rhetorical techniques can help us speak — and listen — to one another today.
THE characteristic deficiencies of English text-books are painfully conspicuous in most of the current works on practical geometry. Take a second-rate cookery-book, and shuffle the recipes at ...
The word “geometry” means earth measurement and the subject evolved from measuring plots of land accurately and also from the work of builders and carpenters. So the geometry that we call ...