500 Years of Melancholia
Visual Mathematics, Tome 16 (2014) no. 2
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In 1514 Albrecht D\"urer made his now worldly famous engraving `Melencolia I'.
It enjoyed a general admiration through times, but recently some `experts' pretended an ellipse on this drawing was constructed erroneously.
They based their argumentation on a drawingD\"urermade in his book `Underweysung der Messung' and on the fact D\"urer used the word `egg line' instead of `ellipse'.
The present contribution however invalidates these arguments.
Classification :
01A40, 51N05, 53-03
Keywords: ellipse, conic section, Dürer
Keywords: ellipse, conic section, Dürer
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Dirk Huylebrouck. 500 Years of Melancholia. Visual Mathematics, Tome 16 (2014) no. 2. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/VM_2014_16_2_a3/