Figure from Stephen Johnston, ‘Making mathematical practice: gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England’ (Ph.D. Cambridge, 1994). See the contents page for direct access to the chapters and the image gallery for the figures currently available online.
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Figure 2.3

The regular solids, from Thomas Digges’s Mathematical Discourse (1591 edition), pp. 99-100. (Edition of 1571 at sig. T2r-v.)

Source: Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford

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