Re: Earliest published ambigram?
tch...@lsa.umich.edu wrote: > 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? > -- > Tim Chow tchow-at-alum-dot-mit-dot-edu > The range of our projectiles---even ... the artillery---however great, will > never exceed four of those miles of which as many thousand separate us from > the center of the earth. ---Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences Sorry, I don't have any information about this. Let us know if you find out!
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