Jump to content

File:Sigillum Iovis.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (2,552 × 3,496 pixels, file size: 10.02 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Description
English: Page 47 of the second part of Vol. II of Athanasius Kircher's "Oedipus Aegyptiacus". The chapter about "Hieroglyphic Mathematics" also deals with magic squares. This page shows "Jupiter's square" which is closely related to Dürer's magic square.
Deutsch: Seite 47 des zweiten Teils des zweiten Bandes des „Oedipus Aegyptiacus“ von Athanasius Kircher. Das Kapitel „Hieroglyphische Mathematik“ behandelt unter anderem Magische Quadrate; auf dieser Seite ist das „Jupiter-Quadrat“ abgebildet, das eine Variante des Magischen Quadrats von Albrecht Dürer ist.
Date Published 1653, scanned 2011-08-07
Source Scan of "Oedipus Aegyptiacus"
Author Work by Athanasius Kircher, scan by Feldkurat Katz

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
 Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Honduras has a general copyright term of 75 years, but it does implement the rule of the shorter term. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II (more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions (more information).
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
{{PD-Art}} template without license parameter: please specify why the underlying work is public domain in both the source country and the United States
(Usage: {{PD-Art|1=|deathyear=''year of author's death''|country=''source country''}}, where parameter 1= can be PD-old-auto, PD-old-auto-expired, PD-old-auto-1996, PD-old-100 or similar. See Commons:Multi-license copyright tags for more information.)

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

data size

10,511,734 byte

height

3,496 pixel

width

2,552 pixel

media type

image/jpeg

checksum

d892232349db4f0856b0cb15c1ff3305ceff1718

determination method or standard: SHA-1

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current09:52, 7 August 2011Thumbnail for version as of 09:52, 7 August 20112,552 × 3,496 (10.02 MB)Feldkurat Katz{{Information |Description ={{en|1=Page 47 of the second part of Vol. II of Athanasius Kircher's "Oedipus Aegyptiacus". The chapter about "Hieroglyphic Mathematics" also deals with magic squares. This pag

The following page uses this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sigillum_Iovis.jpg"