On Nov 16, 2014, at 6:47 PM, Andrew Hudson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Ricardo Borges <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Origami from Angelfish to Zen" Peter Engel >> >> Excelent content about origami history!!! >> > > Not exactly. Peter Engel's book is a fascinating read, and full of > interesting ideas about the psychology of creativity, patterns in nature, > etc. But as I think Peter will readily admit, much of the historical > information is based on sources that turned out to be inaccurate. And > that's not really his fault-- there was a lot of misinformation floating > around, often from sources that seemed reliable, and not much hard evidence > was known or publicly available. > > -- Andrew Peter readily admits that at least some of the historical information in Folding the Universe: Origami from Angelfish to Zen is based on sources that turned out to be inaccurate. As I already wrote to Anna, who originally posed the question, my book is already 25 years old (gasp!), my sources were all in English rather than in Japanese, and I would trust anything that David Lister wrote over anything in my book. I appreciate both Andrew's critical candor and his compliments. --Peter Engel
