Selected pages from Geometria by Augustin Hirschvogel (1503–1553), a German artist, mathematician, and cartographer known primarily for his etchings. In this version from the Deutsche Fotothek, amid the rigid lines of the geometrical sketches appear the chaotic forms of stains which lie on each of the pages.
(All images from Wikimedia Commons, originally from Deustche Fotothek).
(All images from Wikimedia Commons, originally from Deustche Fotothek).
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