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Dynamic symmetry; the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 161

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e divided by two furnishes two .691 rectangles, each of which is composed of a square plus a root-five rec- tangle. The relation of the foot to the bowl is shown by the intersection of diago- nals to two squares and the two .691 forms. The area AB, which is determined by the line formed by the… … Fig. 5. New York Kylix by Nikosthenes. (Measured and drawn by the Museum Staff.) A large eye kylix in the New York Museum, 14.136, Fig. 5, signed by Ni- kosthenes, has an overall area of three squares. The bowl area however is 2.4472, i. e., two squares plus root-five. The width of the foot in…

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