Mirror writing is formed by writing in the opposite direction of a natural way for a particular language, so the result is a mirror image of normal writing: it looks normal when it is reflected in a mirror. Sometimes used as a very primitive form of password. The use of common modern mirror writing can be found in front of ambulances, where the word "AMBULANCE" is often written in a very large mirror text, so drivers see the word in the right way in their rear-view mirrors.
Some people are able to produce handwritten mirror texts. In particular, Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his personal records in this way. Mirror writing is very popular calligraphy in the Ottoman Empire, where it often carries mystical associations.
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Ability to write reflected text
Research shows that the ability to produce handwritten mirrored writings may be inherited and caused by an atypical language organization in the brain. It is not known how many people in the population inherit the ability to write mirrored texts, but informal Australian newspaper experiments identify 10 true mirror writers in a 65,000 reader. Half of the children are people with the ability to inherit it. A higher proportion of left-handers is a better mirror writer than a right-handed person, perhaps because it's more natural for left-handed people to write backwards. 15% of left-handed people have a language center in both parts of their brain. The cerebral cortex and motor homunculus are affected by this, causing the person to read and write back naturally.
In an experiment conducted by the Department of Neurosurgery at the Hokkaido University School of Medicine in Sapporo, Japan, Scientists propose that the origin of mirror writing comes from damage caused by accidental brain damage or neurological diseases, such as essential tremor, Parkinson's disease, or spino-cerebellar degeneration. This hypothesis is proposed because this condition affects a "neural mechanism that controls brain function higher than writing through the thalamus." Another study by the same university found that damage was not the only cause. Scientists observe that normal children show signs of mirrors while learning to write, thus concluding that currently there is no precise method for discovering the origin of mirror reflection.
Like left-handedness, mirror writing is sometimes "corrected" in children.
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Important example
Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his personal notes in the mirror, using only standard writing if he wanted his text to be read by others. The goal of this practice by Leonardo is still unknown, although some reasons may have been suggested. For example, writing left hand from left to right will be messy because the newly inserted ink will foul when his hand moves through it. Writing in reverse will prevent such smudges. An alternative theory is that the process of rotating linguistic objects in memory before setting them to paper, and rotating them before reading them again, is a method of reinforcement learning. From this theory, it follows the use of boustrophedonic writing, especially in public code, perhaps to make better recall of text in the reader.
Matteo Zaccolini may have written his original four volume treatises on optics, colors, and perspectives at the beginning of the 17th century in a mirrored manuscript.
Mirror writing calligraphy was very popular in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries among the order of Bektashi, where it often brought mystical associations. The origins of this mirror-writing tradition may have come from the pre-Islamic period in stone inscriptions in the western Arabian peninsula.
Peep shows the image shown in the zograscope having a header in Mirror.
See also
- Boustrophedon
- Ambigram
References
External links
- Media related to Mirror writing in Wikimedia Commons
- Mirror Write genetic properties
- Jay A. Gottfried, kruba sundar, Feyza Sancar, Anjan chatterjee. "Acquired mirror writing and reading: evidence for reflected graphemic representation" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on June 14, 2010. CS1 maint: Many names: list of authors (links)
- Mirror writing: neurological reflection on unusual phenomena
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