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After 2,000 Years: Mathematician Shatters Ancient Greece's Giant Myth
If you have visited the Acropolis, read a book about ancient Greece, or listened to an enthusiastic tour guide, there is a good chance you have heard this story: The builders of the Parthenon were so sophisticated that they understood the human eye deceives us so they actually built parts of the temple curved to look straight. It is a great story. It also appears again and again in architecture books, lectures and descriptions
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If you have visited the Acropolis, read a book about ancient Greece, or listened to an enthusiastic tour guide, there is a good chance you have heard this story: The builders of the Parthenon were so sophisticated that they understood the human eye deceives us so they actually built parts of the temple curved to look straight. It is a great story. It also appears again and again in architecture books, lectures and descriptions
