I was looking at my hands, off-handedly, this evening and realized how much is accomplished by these amazing parts of the body. I remember, many years ago, seeing a model of the human body at the Natural History Museum in London with the various parts sized proportional to the number of nerves they possessed. The hands were by far the biggest.
M.C. Escher performs the ultimate sleight-of-hand in the mystifying “Drawing Hands.” Escher (1898 – 1972), a Dutch artist who worked with lithography, woodcutting and mezzotints, created optical illusions that defied concepts of infinity by manipulating space and geometric patterns. His works all employed advanced mathematical and scientific principles, although he lacked training in either field.
I was looking at my hands, off-handedly, this evening and realized how much is accomplished by these amazing parts of the body. I remember, many years ago, seeing a model of the human body at the Natural History Museum in London with the various parts sized proportional to the number of nerves they possessed. The hands were by far the biggest.
M.C. Escher performs the ultimate sleight-of-hand in the mystifying “Drawing Hands.” Escher (1898 – 1972), a Dutch artist who worked with lithography, woodcutting and mezzotints, created optical illusions that defied concepts of infinity by manipulating space and geometric patterns. His works all employed advanced mathematical and scientific principles, although he lacked training in either field.
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