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Close-up of a sunflower head showing seeds arranged in a spiral pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Diagram showing four types of polygonal numbers with colored dots arranged in geometric patterns: blue triangles for triangular numbers, green squares for square numbers, red pentagons for pentagonal numbers, and purple hexagons for hexagonal numbers, each illustrating how numbers like 1, 3, 6, 10, 4, 9, 16, 5, 12, 22, 6, 15, and 28 can be visually represented. Yin and yang symbol Albrecht Dürer: The Four Horsemen Creation of Adam Geocentric system Ravana Apollo 13 Whirling dervishes in white robes perform the Sema ritual in a circular hall with a wooden floor, as a large audience watches from balconies in Yenikapi Mevlevihanesi, Istanbul.
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Fibonacci sequence
The head of a sunflower arranged in a Fibonacci sequence.
© KateBabiy/Dreamstime.com
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The assassination of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, April 14, 1865,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 3b49830u)
Polygonal numbers
The ancient Greeks generally thought of numbers in concrete terms, particularly as...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Yin and yang symbol
The yin and yang symbol suggests the two opposite principles or forces that make...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Albrecht Dürer: The Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen, woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, from the Apocalypse series,...
Yale University Art Gallery, Library Transfer, Gift of Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929, L.H.D.H 1967 (1956.16.3e)
Creation of Adam
Detail of a miniature of the creation of Adam in the Book of Genesis from the Bible...
The British Library (Public Domain)
Geocentric system
Ptolemaic diagram of a geocentric system, from the star atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica...
© Photos.com/Getty Images
Ravana
Ravana, the 10-headed demon-king, detail from a Guler painting of the Ramayana,...
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Gift of George P. Bickford (1966.143), www.clevelandart.org.
Apollo 13
The severely damaged Apollo 13 service module (SM) as photographed from the lunar...
NASA
Whirling dervishes
Dervishes performing a ritual dance, Konya, Turkey.
© Ihsan Gercelman/Dreamstime.com
Solar eclipse
Total solar eclipse as seen from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, August 21, 2017.
Joseph Matus—MSFC/NASA
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