Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, perhaps because a spiral was so difficult to describe. Easier to photograph the spiral from the top, easier to flatten the spring into a coil.

Anthony Burgess
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The concept of the "Great Spiral In Nature" is very popular and has been used since the 19th century. This concept was introduced by Aristotle , who said that an idealized curve of the sky was the shape of a flute, which he called The Archai. The Archai is a spiral that starts out as a straight line and then moves into a curve towards the other side.

Source: The Wanting Seed

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