Symmetry Fallacies: Second Edition

by Michael Selzer

This original and important study establishes that the concept of a shape whose left and right sides mirror each other originated at the beginning of the Italian Renaissance - a common fallacy is that it had been known in ancient Greece and Rome. A number of further fallacies attached themselves almost from the outset to the concept of symmetry, among them that Nature's forms are always symmetric, that the art of primitive peoples is always symmetric,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HGPPLYT
• ISBN13: 9798677549885
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"