Re: Earliest published ambigram?
A friend of mine asked for the earliest historical example of an ambigram. To make this a potentially answerable question, suppose we require that an ambigram (1) consist of text and (2) exhibit no other legible reading (under nontrivial rotation or reflection) in its canonical representation, but only in a distorted representation. Suppose further that we ask for the earliest *published* or *recorded* example (or description of an example, to allow for artwork that appeared in an exhibition that we have a record of, even if no printed reproduction of the artwork was ever produced). Let us not, however, put any restrictions on which language is used. Any information on this? **************** I don't have any info either. My impression is that it would be a real mess to research, hopefully someone's done it already. Maybe Hofstadter has, seeing as how he is quite into them. - Don
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