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Snail

Beings · Nature

Snail as an animal people have named and used. Progress, Slow pace, Protection — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Snail is historically related to Iron.

    In Baker's A Dictionary of Men's Wear, Snail is placed beside Iron as concrete shop companions.

    from William Henry Baker · A Dictionary of Men's Wear, 1908 (Gutenberg #76299; PD in the USA)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

  • Spiral resembles Snail.

    In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, spiral channels on the surface naturally look just like those of a snail shell — the spiral is likened to that snail-shell channeling.

    from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

    resembles · sourced · documented

sources

  • A Dictionary of Men's Wear · William Henry Baker

    William Henry Baker, A Dictionary of Men's Wear (1908).

  • De Architectura · Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation)

    Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Morris Hicky Morgan (1914).