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Mars — Chapter 5 (Part 8 of 8)

We thus perceive that the blue-green areas are subjected to the same engineering system as the bright ones. In short, no part of the planet is allowed to escape from the all-pervasive trigonometric spirit. If this be Nature's doing, she certainly here runs her mathematics into the ground.