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HoS Advent Calendar 2016

Johannes Stabius’s “Figura Labyrinthi”

In 1504, shortly after Johannes Stabius was crowned Poet Laureate and probably about the time he was appointed Imperial Historian, he produced three labyrinths. Two of these take the traditional shapes, one was a square and one a circle. The other one, in the shape of a triangle, is a little more unusual. The set […]