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The title’s wordplay is perhaps an indication of this chapter’s intentions – namely, to bridge the gap between nature and geometry. It is well-known that many of the surfaces or solids described by geometry can be found in nature, in both the macrocosm and the microcosm.
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Glaeser, G. (2020). The nature of geometry and the geometry of nature . In: Geometry and its Applications in Arts, Nature and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61398-3_13
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