Leonardo's mirror and other puzzles
By: Ivan Moscovich
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780486482392
Subjects: Puzzles; Scientific recreations
Notes: Originally published: New York : Sterling Publishing Co., 2004.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Analemma; title: Concentric stars; title: Complex planetary curves; title: String along 1; title: String along 2; title: String along 3; title: Broken necklace; title: DNA; title: To infinity-then stop; title: Hypnotic gaze; title: Circular calculation; title: Crossways; title: Mystic rose-19 points; title: The Hamiltonian way; title: Back to square one; title: The Icosian game; title: Lunes of Hippocrates; title: The circle inside; title: Leonardo's dissection; title: Leonardo's mirror; title: Pretty petals; title: Amphora; title: Yin-yang; title: Man of the Earth; title: What on Earth?; title: Hydrosphere; title: Sphere of influence; title: Rampant rabbits; title: Showy sunflower; title: The monk and the mountain; title: Packing disks or circles; title: Black balls; title: Pack it in!; title: Bottle it up; title: Packing circles: ten in a square; title: Packing circles: 13 in a square; title: Packing circles: 100 in a square; title: Move in different circles; title: Cannonball clump; title: Side-to-side; title: Territory war; title: Cutting corners; title: Zigzag game; title: Hexstep 1; title: Hexstep 2; title: Monge's cirlce theorem; title: Got you pegged; title: Conveyancing; title: Bumpy ride in Catena; title: Curves of constant width; title: Catenary: the gravity curve; title: Conic sections; title: Pitch up the parabola; title: How many hexagons?; title: Computer manipulation; title: Going round in circles?; title: Kinemat; title: Puzzle with a twist; title: Be flippant; title: Elusive ellipse?; title: Inner triangles; title: Photo-graphic; title: Ant-ics; title: Butterfly collection; title: Web weavers; title: Curious curves; title: Grid lock; title: Magic color squares quartet; title: Red-green-blue; title: Knight lines; title: Cave in, then out; title: Reconnaissance; title: A dotty actress; title: Alphabet soup; title: Any which way; title: Skeleton cubes; title: Pantograph; title: Peaucellier's linkage; title: Table golf; title: Pong hau k'l; title: Flattery will get you nowhere; title: Bank raid; title: On the right tracks; title: Are you coordinated?; title: Cat's cradle; title: Tight squeeze; title: The path to the finish; title: Mouth to mouth; title: Answers.