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Here's a good link: Enjoy!
The logarithmic spiral was first studied by Descartes in 1638 and Jakob Bernoulli. Bernoulli was so fascinated by the spiral that he had one engraved on his tombstone (although the engraver did not draw it true to form) together with the words "eadem mutata resurgo" ("I shall arise the same though changed"). Torricelli worked on it independently and found the length of the curve (MacTutor Archive).
Even in the dark ages, clever folks realized this secret to regeneration was linked to reincarnation. The quote is similar to Benjamin Franklin's desired epitaph about being a book:
Body of B. Franklin,
Printer,
Like the Cover of an Old Book,
It's Contents Torn Out And
Stripped of its Lettering and Gilding,
Lies Here Food for Worms.
But the Work Shall not be Lost
For it Will, as He Believed
Appear Once More
In a New and Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected By the Author