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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 41

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DYNAMIC SYMMETRY 24 fourth of a root-four outside and a root-five inside, one-fifth of a root-five out- side. And a reciprocal to any rectangle is obtained by drawing a perpendicular from one corner. … The whirling square rectangle and the root-five rectangle are placed within a square thus: ^"-•^^ J.^-_ — ___, i --^ ^. ^ 9 ^^ Fig. 11^. Fig. \\a. The square is first bisected by the line AB, to obtain a root-four rectangle or two squares. From the diagonal of this rectangle CB, unity, or BE, is…

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