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Looked at from the street, the books stand yards high and a gigantic tobacco jar stands at the crossroads. A small street in Savona, Italy, was the inspiration for this work. [1] Escher said it was one of his favorite drawings but thought he could have drawn it better. [citation needed] This image is a classic example of Escher's plays on ...
Maurits Cornelis Escher (/ ˈ ɛ ʃ ər /; [1] Dutch: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛɕər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics.
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Circle Limit III is a woodcut made in 1959 by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, in which "strings of fish shoot up like rockets from infinitely far away" and then "fall back again whence they came". [1] It is one of a series of four woodcuts by Escher depicting ideas from hyperbolic geometry. Dutch physicist and mathematician Bruno Ernst called it ...
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Escher became interested in how forms could fit together to create what Sarah Lawson calls "paradoxical patterns", as when the black geese in Day and Night emerge from the darkened spaces between the white geese that are flying in the opposite direction.
A species from South Africa, "Named after John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who was born in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa on 3rd January 1892 and died on 2nd September 1973. His fictional "Middle Earth" is believed to have been inspired in part by the exceptional natural scenery of Hogsback , the type locality of this species."