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I AM much obliged to Mr. Wright for his correction (NATURE, July 8, p. 40). I had made a search in English and Continental books on curves and concluded that this spiral had been overlooked as a curve. But it appears to have been recognised in connexion with the spherical pendulum. Prof. Lamb in his “Dynamics,” p. 288, as I now find, refers to the curve as “a kind of elliptic spiral,” and Dr. Besant describes it as “an ellipse gradually shrinking in size.”
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ROWELL, H. The Elliptic Logarithmic Spiral. Nature 110, 214 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110214b0
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