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    At the end of the 15th century an artist portrayed a scholar adorned in friars robes examining a water filled glass which turns out to be something quite intricate. Who was the painter, the subject, and whose works did the subject plagiarize in his own published books?

    Question #59355. Asked by peasypod. (Sep 13 05 5:20 PM)


    lanfranco

    		How about the portrait of Luca Pacioli with his polyhedron? There is reason to believe that Pacioli plagiarized from Piero della Francesca (or even Leon Battista Alberti) in his "Summa arithmetica" of 1494:

    I might add that I recently posted a question about Piero:

    http://www.ac-noumea.nc/maths/amc/polyhedr/art/polyart1_.htm

    http://www.ac-noumea.nc/maths/amc/polyhedr/art/polyart1_.htm

    Sep 13 05, 6:16 PM
    peasypod

    		Aha, so it was Piero in 59276? This was my cunning plan....

    Yep, A Golden Banana for that one m'dear.

    Sep 13 05, 6:25 PM

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