Open AccessThe melancholy according to Aristotle in the magic square on Duerer's Melencolia I
Author(s) -
Tine Kurent
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
acta neophilologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-417X
pISSN - 0567-784X
DOI - 10.4312/an.26.1.5-8
Subject(s) - wonder , magic (telescope) , poetry , the arts , magic square , literature , politics , square (algebra) , art , philosophy , epistemology , visual arts , physics , mathematics , law , astronomy , political science , geometry , combinatorics
In the numbers of Duerer's Melancolia magic square is hidden the Aristotle's wonder: "How come, that all the people, excelling in philosophy or in politics or in poetry or in arts, are evidently melancholical..."