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Allegory of Mathematics. Fresco by Giulio Parigi, 1599-1600 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Stanzino delle Matematiche). The figure, wearing on her breast a drawing of the Sun and the Moon, holds in her hand a square, a compass, a ruling pen and an armillary sphere.
Allegory of Mathematics. Fresco by Giulio Parigi, 1599-1600 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Stanzino delle Matematiche). The figure, wearing on her breast a drawing of the Sun and the Moon, holds in her hand a square, a compass, a ruling pen and an armillary sphere.
© Stanzino delle Matematiche, Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze / Claudio Focardi

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