Image: Old wikipedia logo
Description: Old wikipedia logo. The logo is made by superposing a Lewis Caroll's phrase on a circle, using fisheye effect to simulate a sphere. The phrase is a quote from "Euclid and his Modern Rivals" by Lewis Carroll (Preface, page X), which says: "In one respect this book is an experiment, and may chance to prove a failure: I mean that I have not thought it necessary to maintain throughout the gravity of style which scientific writers usually affect, and which has somehow come to be regarded as an ‘inseparable accident’ of scientific teaching. I never could quite see the reasonableness of this immemorial law: subjects there are, no doubt, which are in their essence too serious to admit of any lightness of treatment – but I cannot recognise Geometry as one of them. Nevertheless it will, I trust, be found that I have permitted myself a glimpse of the comic side of things only at fitting seasons, when the tired reader might well crave a moment’s breathing-space, and not on any occasion where it could endanger the continuity of the line of argument."
Title: Old wikipedia logo
Credit: from English Wikipedia
Author: Bjørn Smestad according to this archived page of submitted logos from Nupedia site - as is seen in that page at the bottom "Logo ideas posted with permission of their designers. Click on a logo to go to its designer's website." Image link in that page is pointing to this archived page: "Assistant Professor Bjørn Smestad". previously attributed to Stephen Gilbert. Actually, User Stephen Gilbert is not the author of the logo, as he himself stated on 17 July 2007 (see statement) User:Bjornsm identified himself as Bjørn Smestad on 21 May 2009, stating "Actually, I just realized today that the logo I submitted that many years ago were ever used for anything at all... I am amazed. I must admit I was never much involved in either Nupedia or Wikipedia."
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