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Historical Note on Dürer's Magic Square
Dürer's magic square appears in Albrecht Dürer's engraving Melencolia I:
The date of the engraving, $1514$, appears in the bottom row of the magic square.
Sources
- 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $16$
- 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $16$
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): magic square
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): magic square
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): magic square