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Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of The World)
A book discussing the relations of geometrical forms and physical phenomena
Portrait of Luca Pacioli
A painting portraying renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli
Elements
A collection of mathematicsl theorem and proofs
Melencolia I
Albrecht Dürer depicts a female angel with a predominance of black bile in her system.
Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt (Instructions for Measuring With Compass and Ruler)
A treatise made to be a manual for artists and architects to incorporate measurement into their work.
Libellus De Quinque Corporibus Regularibus (Short Book on the Five Regular Solids)
A treatise studying the five regular solids.
Portrait of Johannes Neudorfer and his Son
This painting of a German writing master and his son features a dodecahedron
Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum, continens mysterium cosmographicum, de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium, deque causis coelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumque periodicorum genuinis & propriis, demonstratum, per quinque regularia corpora geometrica (The Cosmographic Mystery)
A book on Johannes Kepler's cosmological theory based on the Copernican system. The full title translates to Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe; on the Marvelous Proportion of the Celestial Spheres, and…
De Divina Proportione (On The Divine Proportion)
A book on mathematical proportions and their applications to geometry was written in Milan between 1496 and 98 and first published in Venice.