Re: Currents was Re: Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

Padraic Brown scripsit:

> It'd only be a matter of whether East is on the left or right
> as you face the nearest polar regions. East and west are just
> a matter of perspective.
But north is by definition on your left (I hope) as you face
east.  It's east and west that are fundamental: north and
south are derived from them.

Or to take a space perspective rather than a surface one,
the north pole is the one which, as you look down upon it,
you see counterclockwise rotation.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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        --Douglas Hofstadter

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