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Spiral

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A curve that winds while it grows. Shells, dances, and later occult diagrams use spirals without sharing one doctrine of return.

Hellenic religion

  • Spiral appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes spiral and winding forms among columns and paths of sanctuaries. A named spiral form in that periegesis, not golden-spiral as a modern ratio dump and not a helix technical pile.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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  • 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

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  • Spiral resembles Shell.

    In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, spiral channels look just like those of a snail shell — the spiral takes that shell channel likeness.

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

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  • Spiral is used in Twelve.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, a spiral piece of metal is slightly boiled for twelve minutes in the parting sequence — twelve minutes is the boil span of that spiral slip.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Spiral is used in Twenty.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, nitric acid acts on the spiral slip of gold and silver alloy for twenty-five minutes — twenty-five minutes is the acid time on that spiral.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Spiral is associated with Double.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, a flexible tube of spiral wire covered with leather sits beside a double-line diagram of the apparatus — the spiral tube is that double-line part.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Spiral is associated with Spring.

    In Ure’s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, spiral springs are inserted within the blocks of the apparatus — the spiral works as that spring.

    from Andrew Ure · Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1839 (and later PD editions)

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  • Right angle is associated with Spiral.

    In Dunglison’s Medical Lexicon, an instrument extremity bent at a right angle is suited to a duct whose course is spiral — right-angle bend serves that spiral duct reach.

    from Robley Dunglison · Medical Lexicon, 1874 (and earlier PD eds.)

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