Stranger than the dreams of Ptolemy

The Antipodean challenge to Western thinking

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  • Published 20200726
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Although Europeans had believed in the symmetry of the two hemispheres for nearly two centuries, they silently forgot the idea. They tolerantly accepted that when God created the world he had not wanted it to be symmetrical.
Ernst van den Boogaart, ‘Mythical symmetry’

 

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