This pre-Roman Celtic Mount displays British mastery of geometry and mathematics as well as bronze-making technology. The outer shape is an ellipse with two extra dissimilar conical sections that ...

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A new paper has been published on the unusual microstructure of smectics -- liquid crystals whose molecules are arranged in layers and form ellipses and hyperbolas -- and their similarity to ...