De quinque corporibus regularibus | work by Piero | Britannica (original) (raw)

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  In Piero della Francesca: Last years of Piero della Francesca
  A second treatise, the De quinque corporibus regularibus (“On the Five Regular Bodies”), written and illustrated some time after 1482, follows Plato and Pythagoras in dealing with the notion of perfect proportions. Del abaco (“On the Abacus”) is a pamphlet on applied mathematics.
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