As Itamar Kubovy, Pilobolus’ executive director, observed, “Looking at the same reality through different lenses can trigger ideas in different ways.”

Now, however, an Israeli company called Itamar Medical has developed a hand-held device that can directly measure the extent to which arteries have hardened.

Since it was proposed by the Israeli scholar Itamar Even-Zohar in the early 1970s, Polysystem theory has proved its effectiveness in justifying the position of translated literature.