ANCIENT OMPHALOS AT DELPHI: GEOMETRICALLY A SPACE-INVERTING ANAMORPHOSCOPE.

Whether the artisan who made the Omphalos at Delphi over 2500 years ago recognized the optical transform properties of its shape or not, its geometrical features are nevertheless those of a space-inverting anamorphoscopic mirror. Specifically, it is similar in shape to a circle-inverting anamorphosc...

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Publicado en:	Archaeometry Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 387 - 396
Autor principal:	KUCHEL, P. W.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Apr2011
Materias:	Antiquities Anamorphosis (Visual perception) Diffraction patterns Apollo (Deity) Symbolism Artisans Delphi (Extinct city)
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