The Perfect Shape Spiral Stories /

This book uses the spiral shape as a key to a multitude of strange and seemingly disparate stories about art, nature, science, mathematics, and the human endeavour. In a way, the book is itself organized as a spiral, with almost disconnected chapters circling around and closing in on the common them...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammer, Øyvind (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Copernicus, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Temas:
Mathematics.
Arts.
Architecture-Mathematics.
Anatomy, Comparative.
Science-History.
Mathematics in Art and Architecture.
Animal Anatomy.
History of Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Spirals of the abyss.- Squaring the circle.- The icon.- The King of Snails.- Spira Mirabilis.- Circular tesselations.- How to brace a circle.- Sunflowers.- The great spiral in the sky.- The spiral of the ancient mariner.- Gnomons, a miracle, and Charles Babbage.- The uncoiling finger.- An interlude at the beach.- Spiral Jetty, Tatlin's Tower.- The Friend.- The labyrinths of history.- Sculptures of the sea  Maelstrom.- Nature red in blood and claw.- Pagan coils.- The case of the staircase -- Helix -- The quest for the sublime spiral -- Spirals of the mind -- The spider's spiral spin -- Helical trees -- Literature.  . 
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