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Painting - "Mystic" Hexagon (Pascal)
This painting is based on a theorem generalized by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal...
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Painting - Aligned Triangles (Desargues)
In the 17th century, the French engineer and architect Girard Desargues (1591–1661)...
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Painting - Archimedes Transversal
The construction of regular polygons using straightedge and compass alone is a problem that...
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Painting - Area and Perimeter of a Squared Circle
To "square” a figure, according to the classical Greek tradition, means to construct, with...
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Painting - Biblical Squared Circles
This painting, #92 in the series, relates to a verse in the Old Testament (I Kings, Chapter...
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Painting - Bouquet of Triangle Theorems (Euclid)
The mathematician Euclid lived around 300 BC, probably in Alexandria in what is now Egypt....
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Painting - Conic Curve (Apollonius)
In ancient times, the Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga (about 240–190 BC) made...
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Painting - Construction of a Heptagon
This is one of three very similar Crockett Johnson paintings closely related to the construction...
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Painting - Construction of Heptagon
Three very similar paintings in the Crockett Johnson collection are closely related to the...
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Painting - Construction of the Heptagon
Three very similar paintings in the Crockett Johnson collection are closely related to the...
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Painting - Cross Ratio in an Ellipse (Poncelet)
From ancient times, mathematicians have studied conic sections, curves generated by the intersection...
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Painting - Cross-Ratio in a Conic (Poncelet)
From ancient times, mathematicians have studied conic sections, curves generated by the intersection...
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Painting - Curve Tangents (Fermat)
The French lawyer and mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) was one of the first...
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Painting - Division of the Square by Conic Rectangles
This painting shows three triangles of equal area, one in shades of blue, one in shades of...
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Painting - Doubled Cube (Newton)
Two paintings in the Crockett Johnson collection concern the ancient problem of doubling the...
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Painting - Duality (Pascal-Brianchon)
As a 21-year-old student, the Frenchman Charles Jules Brianchon (1785–1864) discovered...
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Painting - Equal Areas, Their Triangular Square Root and Pi
This painting, based on a construction of Crockett Johnson, shows a central brown circle,...
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Painting - Equal Triangles
In this painting, based on his own construction, Crockett Johnson continued his exploration...
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Painting - Euclidian Values of a Squared Circle
To “square” a figure, according to the classical Greek tradition, means to construct,...
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Painting - Every Positive Integer (Gauss)
This painting is loosely based on a theorem proven by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich...
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Painting - Fluxions (Newton)
In the 17th century, the natural philosophers Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebniz developed...
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Painting - Geometric Mean (Archytas)
This painting demonstrates a construction for finding the geometric mean of two line segments...
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Painting - Geometry of a Triple Bubble (Plateau)
The Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau (1801–1883) performed a sequence of experiments...
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Painting - Golden Rectangle (Pythagoras)
The ancient Greek mathematician Euclid showed in his Elements that it is possible to...
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Painting - Golden Rectangle
Crockett Johnson annotated several diagrams in his copy of Valens’s book The Number of...
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