Salinon
Sign in to savethumb|right|300px|The salinon (red) and the circle (blue) have the same area.
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thumb|right|300px|The salinon (red) and the circle (blue) have the same area.
The salinon (meaning 'salt-cellar' in Greek) is a geometrical figure that consists of four semicircles. It was first introduced in the Book of Lemmas, a work attributed to Archimedes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salinon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.