Durer’s Construction

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Going from a point, to a series of circles, then to a series of triangles and finally to a square, Renaissance artist/geometer Albrecht Durer developed a geometric progression that ultimately generates a pentagon–the ancient symbolic representation of the quintessential nature of the human form and being. This PDF shows the geometric progression he may have taken, along with a discussion of the underlying traditional symbology.