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In this work, we present a mathematical interpretation for the masterpiece Allégorie de la Géométrie (1649), painted by the French baroque artist Laurent de La Hyre (1606-1656)
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... young woman holds a "mysterious" sheet containing mathematical illustra- tions ( Figure 2). For sure, the top-left diagram illustrates the famous Pythagorean Proposition (Elements i, 47, [3]), stating that, in a right triangle, the sum of the squares on the two legs equals the square on the hypotenuse (Figure 3). ...
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