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Symmetry Fallacies: Second Edition

Symmetry Fallacies: Second Edition

Selzer, Michael

Paperback

Art HistorySports General

ISBN13: 9798677549885
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 3 2020
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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, that nothing we make can be beautiful unless it is shaped symmetrically, and so on. These fallacies persist, and continue to distort scientific and scholarly research; and they have literally reshaped the face of western civilization, as asymmetric medieval buildings and gardens were demolished and replaced with symmetric structures. SYMMETRY FALLACIES traces in scholarly but highly readable detail, and abundantly illustrated, the origins and wide-ranging consequences of this strange phenomenon.

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