¶ Bow Ties: Foldability of Great Circles
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Bow Ties: Foldability of Great Circles:
“This may be pure accident but I could say something to you now categorically/ that is really very fascinating, that is, I found that you could fold and make all the 25 and 31 great circles. There are no other circles though that I know how to fold and make any other kind of great circle patterns on spheres. They and they alone seem to be foldable into these conditions. This seems to be a very strange kind of control because if they did they all relate, they are the ways of the grand central station and all the shortest, most economical railroad tracks between all the points in Universe-- flying either concave or convex.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #7, p. 271. 11 Jul’62
