Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 148
shown by the line DE, the diagonal to a square. FE and GH are two whirling square rectangles overlapping to the extent of GI, the 1.382 shape. Dr. Caskey has suggested the sequence of subdivision in the three small diagrams, Figs. 5, 6 and 7. The picture on this vase shows clearly that the Greek… … Fig- 5- Fig. 6. w w •. Fig. 7. A small black-glaze skyphos at Yale, Fig. 8, has an overall ratio of 2.1213 or three root-two rectangles, .7071 x 3 =2.1213 (compare Kylix, Fig. 15, Chap- ter IV), AB, BC, CD are root-two rectangles. AE, BF are squares. These squares divide the area AB into three…
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