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English: Diagram illustrating why mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down. An observer A is comparing an object viewed directly (O) and its image I reflected in a mirror M. The mirror itself does not reverse left and right or up and down, it reverses back to front. The mirror image of an object faces the opposite direction to the original object. Since the object is on the opposite side of him from the mirror, the viewer A must rotate his head so it faces the mirror as shown at B. Human beings turn their heads about a vertical axis, and this is the cause of the left - right reversal observed in the image. In the statue O observed directly, the cat is raising its left paw, while in the image I it is raising its right paw.
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3 January 2017

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