Divina proportione — Leonardo da Vinci, June 1, 1509

Divina proportione, Leonardo da Vinci

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Platonic solids
Pacioli’s Divina proportione of 1509, with Leonardo’s drawings of the regular solids both filled and as open frames. The page reproduced here is one of Pacioli’s capital letters, not a solid.
An AI reviewer agreed, 2026-10-09: The source page says "Leonardo drew the illustrations of the regular solids while he lived with and took mathematics lessons from Pacioli," and its third part covers the Five Regular Solids, which are the Platonic solids. The picture is a capital M built with ruler and compass, as the note says, so it does not show a solid, though the text only names the open-frame drawings and does not mention filled ones.
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Archimedean solids
Leonardo’s plates for the book include Archimedean solids, the rhombicuboctahedron among them. The page reproduced here is not one of the plates.
An AI reviewer had doubts, 2026-10-09: The source page says the book "It also contains a discourse on the regular and semiregular polyhedra", which fits Archimedean solids in general, and the picture is the letter M page, as the note says. Nothing in the texts names the rhombicuboctahedron as one of Leonardo's plates, so that specific claim goes beyond the evidence.
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Credit: Rogers Fund, 1919
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 336656 (read 2026-08-27)
Record: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336656

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