Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge memorial publication fund · New Haven, Conn., and New York city, Yale university press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 53
ile BC consists of four .854 shapes. This .854 shape is valuable. It consists of .618 plus .236; the latter being the reciprocal of 4.236 or root-five plus two. The ratio .854 is the reciprocal of 1.1708. Seven of the thirteen subdivisional figures in Fig. 20 are squares. AB is a square and BC… … Fig. 20. The rectangle AB in Fig. 21, has a ratio of 1.4472; a square plus a root-five rectangle, .4472 being one-fifth of 2.236 and a reciprocal of that number. Fig. 21.
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