Pacioli; sixth piece of the Buckminster Fuller Presentation Series : porcelain sculpture, 2001.

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Pacioli; sixth piece of the Buckminster Fuller Presentation Series : porcelain sculpture, 2001.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122585571

The Buckminster Fuller Presentation series is a tribute to both the geometric system of Buckminster Fuller which gave birth to his geodesic domes and the carbon 60 molecule named after him for its geodesic shape. All the porcelain pieces in the series represent the beautiful symmetry of hexapent cage structure (a truncated icosahedron). Included with the piece is a full explanation of the buckminsterfullerene molecule.

1 sculpture, 13 x 13 cm. (in box)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983

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Architect, inventor, scientist, teacher, philosopher, creator of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car. From the description of Letter, 1958 Feb. 10, Clemson, S.C. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 33018576 Mark Burginer is a California-based architect, whose interest in Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry led to some correspondence between them during the early 1980s. From the description of Letters to Mark Burginger, 1980-1981. (Unknown)...

Pacioli, Luca, approximately 1445-1517

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Jaber, Bobby.

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The artist, Bobby Jaber, was inspired by the buckminsterfullerene molecule. He sculpted a series of 6 porcelain geometric representations of it, presenting the other five to Sir Harold Kroto, Dr. Richard Smalley and Dr. Robert Curl, E.J. Applewhite, and Bonnie DeVarco. This piece is named for Fra Luca Pacioli (1445-1514), a well-known Renaissance master of mathematics and sacred geometry. He wrote the first treatise exploring the Golden Mean in great detail entitled "De ...