- List of Figures*
- List of Tables**
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Dr Watson’s problem
- 2. Death and the right hand
- 3. On the left bank
- 4. Kleiz, drept, luft, zeso, lijevi, prawy
- 5. The heart of the dragon
- 6. The toad, ugly and venomous
- 7. The dextrous and the gauche
- 8. The left brain, the right brain and the whole brain
- 9. Ehud, son of Gera
- 10. Three men went to mow
- 11. Keggie-hander
- 12. Vulgar errors
- 13. The handedness of Muppets
- 14. Man is all symmetrie
- 15. The world, the small, the great
- Notes
- Picture and Text Credits
- Index
- * Figures
- 1.1 Situs solitus and situs inversus
- 1.2 Sir Thomas Watson
- 1.3 Louis Pasteur
- 1.4 Crystals of racemic acid
- 1.5 A simple spiral staircase
- 1.6 A complex spiral staircase
- 1.7 Paul Broca
- 1.8 The brain of Leborgne (Tan)
- 1.9 The brain of Lélong
- 2.1 Robert Hertz
- 2.2 Burial in the Kurgan and Beaker cultures
- 2.3 Relationship of compass to right and left
- 2.4 The floor plan of a Purum house
- 2.5 The ground plan of a Christian church
- 3.1 Thomas Henry Huxley
- 3.2 Right-handed screw
- 3.3 Necklace found with Ötzi
- 3.4 Iron age torque
- 3.5 Right- and left-handed shells
- 3.6 A left-handed spiral staircase
- 3.7 The bend dexter and the bend sinister
- 3.8 Congruent triangles
- 3.9 Congruent triangles, slid one over the other
- 3.10 Incongruent counterpart triangles
- 3.11 Incongruent counterpart triangles rotated into the third dimension
- 3.12 Train on a single track
- 3.13 Reversing loop for train
- 4.1 A British postage stamp
- 4.2 A US one-dollar bill
- 4.3 Comet Hale-Bopp
- 4.4 Test of Right–Left Understanding
- 4.5 The Hands Test—control condition
- 4.6 The Hands Test—main condition
- 4.7 A number form
- 4.8 Three bears—version 1
- 4.9 Three bears—version 2
- 4.10 Left–right anomalies in drawings
- 4.11 Tischbein’s portrait of Goethe
- 5.1 Burroughs-Wellcome advert for digitalis
- 5.2 The arterial tree
- 5.3 Pleurothetism
- 5.4 Cephalodiscus and Cothurnocystis
- 5.5 The movements of Rhenocystis
- 5.6 Dexiothetism
- 5.7 The rearrangement of the vertebrate body plan
- 5.8 The development of flatfish
- 5.9 Isomerism defects and situs inversus
- 5.10 Symmetrised face
- 5.11 Early cell division in the tadpole
- 5.12 A tadpole with situs inversus
- 5.13 Roux’s experiment on a two-cell embryo
- 5.14 Hans Spemann
- 5.15 Conjoined newt twins
- 5.16 9+2 structure of a normal and an abnormal cilium
- 5.17 The developing heart tube
- 5.18 Expression of Sonic hedgehog in the chick embryo
- 5.19 The anatomy of Hensen’s node
- 5.20 Schematic representation of nodal flow
- 6.1 The arrangement of atoms in D-valine and L-valine
- 6.2 Ball-and-stick models of D-alanine and L-alanine
- 6.3 Chiral catalysis
- 7.1 Charles Darwin with his son William
- 7.2 Waltham Forest handedness survey
- 7.3 The Tapley and Bryden handedness test
- 7.4 Franziska hand-clasping aged six weeks
- 7.5 Franziska and Anna aged fourteen months
- 7.6 Spiral movements in humans and animals
- 8.1 Pasteur and Mach in late life
- 8.2 The left hemisphere of the brain of a woman with complete loss of language
- 8.3 Functional localisation of grammar in the left hemisphere
- 8.4 A demonstration of agnosia
- 8.5 Object recognition test in agnosia
- 8.6 Canonical and non-canonical view of a hand-saw
- 8.7 Drawings of a cube by a split-brain patient
- 8.8 Brain scan of Federico Fellini after his stroke
- 8.9 Line-bisection tasks carried out by Fellini
- 8.10 Clocks drawn by a patient with neglect
- 8.11 Flowers drawn by a patient with neglect
- 8.12 Drawing by Fellini
- 8.13 Potrait by Tom Greenshields
- 8.14 Functional asymmetry test
- 8.15 Chimeric face
- 9.1 Left-handedness during the twentieth century
- 9.2 Handedness in works of art
- 9.3 Silver spoon from the Mildenhall Treasure
- 9.4 Handedness in gorillas
- 9.5 The right hands of different primates
- 9.6 Movement of the right and left arm while throwing a ball
- 10.1 Thomas Carlyle
- 10.2 Boustrophedon
- 10.3 True boustrophedon and false boustrophedon
- 10.4 The historical development of the direction of writing
- 10.5 Countries driving on the right and left in 2000
- 10.6 Countries driving on the right and left in 1919
- 10.7 Chirenia in the year 1 AF
- 10.8 Chirenia in the years 1 AF to 6 AF
- 11.1 Sir Osbert Sitwell
- 11.2 Van Gogh’s lithograph of The Potato Eaters
- 11.3 Terms for left-handedness in England
- 12.1 Sir Thomas Browne
- 12.2 Perception of location of body organs
- 12.3 The hooked or inverted writing position
- 12.4 Sundial in Queens’ College, Cambridge
- 12.5 Clock painted by Uccello
- 12.6 Simple reflection in a mirror
- 12.7 Reversed image in a mirror
- 12.8 Unreversed image in a mirror
- 12.9 Non-reversing mirror
- 13.1 Tintype photograph of Billy the Kid
- 13.2 Writing in Leonardo’s maps of Val di Chiana
- 13.3 Rembrandt’s engraving of The Three Trees
- 13.4 Edgar Allen Poe photograph, and as a composite of two right cheeks or two left cheeks
- 13.5 Shadowing from right and left
- 14.1 The type of ink-blot used in the Rorschach test
- 14.2 An example of translation
- 14.3 Human footprints showing glide reflection
- 14.4 Patterns found in Roman mosaics
- 14.5 Raffia cloth from Zaire
- 14.6 Seventeen types of wallpaper
- 14.7 Ørsted’s experiments
- 14.8 Dot figures showing different types of symmetry
- 14.9 A random-dot pattern
- 15.1 Assyrian bas-relief sculpture
- ** Tables
- 2.1 Purum dual symbolic system
- 2.2 Gogo dual symbolic system
- 4.1 Indo-European words for ‘right’ and ‘left’
- 8.1 Brain damage and speech loss
- 8.2 The relationship between handedness and language dominance
- 9.1 Processing styles of the two hemispheres of the brain
- 10.1 Voting in European democracies
- 12.1 Survey on the position of the heart
- 15.1 Associations of symmetry and asymmetry
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