Re: [HM] Archimedes' Box (FWD)

Jaime Carvalho e Silva (jaimecs@mat.uc.pt)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:41:04 +0100 (WET DST)

At 20:46 -0500 99/04/27, Barry Cipra wrote:
> There is a diagram and discussion of the "loculus Archimedius" in the
> book "Alexandria: The Golden City" by Harold Thayer Davis (Principia
> Press of Illinois, 1957). It's like a Tangram, consisting of 14
> shapes, mostly triangles, with a couple of quadrilaterals and
> irregular pentagons, and the puzzle as Davis presents it is to fit
> them together into a square.

This game is also known as Stomachion and is described in this page:

http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Stomachion/intro.html

By the way, this is a part of an excellent page about Archimedes.

Jaime

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