Dürer's Net
Pictures by Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer's woodcut net of eight hexagons and six squares, drawn to be cut out and folded into a solid, comes from his 1525 book Underweysung der Messung. It was the first book to print nets like this for folding paper solids, a quiet, clever idea about how separate pieces come together. For someone you are thinking of.
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From the great books of mathematics / Dürer's Net / From Albrecht Dürer, Underweysung der Messung, Nuremberg, 1525 / A flat net of eight hexagons and six squares that folds up into a solid, from Albrecht Dürer's Underweysung der Messung (Nuremberg, 1525), the first book to print nets for folding paper solids.
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