Another polyhedron appears in Florence: it is the tetrahedron for the upcoming exhibition dedicated to Leonardo and botany

The exhibition Leonardo’s Botany. For a New Science between Art and Nature. Another large polyhedron six meters high has appeared in Florence ’s Piazza della Stazione. After thehexahedron in Children’s Square in Beslan, theicosahedron in Piazza Santa Maria Novella and the dodecahedron in Piazza della Signoria, the tetrahedron, the symbol of fire, that Leonardo da Vinci designed for the manuscript De Divina Proportione by the mathematical friar Luca Pacioli has appeared. For Plato, polyhedra had special symbolic meanings: the dodecahedron represented the entire universe, the hexahedron the earth, the icosahedron the water, the tetrahedron the fire and the octahedron the air.

The Florentine exhibition will open on September 13, 2019 at the Santa Maria Novella Museum, and will be open until December 15, 2019. The exhibition is part of the celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the death of the Tuscan genius.

Another polyhedron appears in Florence: it is the tetrahedron for the upcoming exhibition dedicated to Leonardo and botany

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