The 1586 book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium, (Perspective of the Regular Solids) is a study of the five Platonic solids modified, stellated and faceted in order to produce 120 variations. The detailed engravings were made by Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508-1585), a German goldsmith, artist and printmaker. In Jamnitzer’s work the tetrahedron is associated with fire, octahedron with air, hexahedron with earth, icosahedron with water and dodecahedron with heaven respectively.
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Dear Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli,
Two remarks:
1. The title picture “Octahedron” is missing and replaced with ‘icosahedron’
2. I see only 5 x 12 = 60 variations of the 120 which are announced
Regards