Perspectiva corporum regularium

It was "the most lavish of the perspective books published in Germany in the late sixteenth century" and was included in several royal art collections.

[3] The book focuses on the five Platonic solids, with the subtitles of its title page citing Plato's Timaeus and Euclid's Elements for their history.

Each of these five shapes has a chapter, whose title page relates the connection of its polyhedron to the classical elements in medieval cosmology: fire for the tetrahedron, earth for the cube, air for the octahedron, and water for the icosahedron, with the dodecahedron representing the heavens, its 12 faces corresponding to the 12 symbols of the zodiac.

[2][4][7] As Jamnitzer describes in his prologue, he built models of polyhedra out of paper and wood and used a mechanical device to help trace their perspective.

[8] A 2008 German postage stamp, issued to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Jamnitzer's birth, included a reproduction of one of the pages of the book, depicting two polyhedral cones tilted towards each other.