Whirlpool Galaxy
Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli (b.1654, d.1705) greatly admired the logarithmic spiral, found widely in nature, because in his opinion it “may be used as a symbol, either of fortitude and constancy in adversity, or of the human body, which after all its changes, even after death, will be restored to its exact and perfect self.” He called it Spira mirabilis – “the marvelous spiral.”
Bernoulli picked out the perfect spiral to be engraved on his gravestone along with the motto Eadem mutata resurgo (“Changed and yet the same, I rise again”).
Mechanism of a scroll pump
Hahaha. What he got instead was an Archimedean spiral, which is totally not the same thing at all.
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