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The Heart Shape

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by btilly • 2 years ago

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btilly• 2 years ago

Hearts are lopsided and don't look anything like what we now call a heart shape.

082349872349872• 2 years ago

compare "inaccurate bloodpump shape":

https://nathanwpyle.threadless.com/designs/strange-planet-sp...

micromacrofoot• 2 years ago

indeed, but I can imagine a combination of limited drawing skills and lack of reference combined with hundreds of years producing it as an outcome

ks2048• 2 years ago

I don’t know. Look at this photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Humhrt2.jpg

Except for that top part, the dark red part looks quite like a heart shape.

CottonMcKnight• 2 years ago

I thought it came from the shape of two mated swans with their heads together.

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