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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 74

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oot-two rectangles, and the width of the foot is the end of one of these shapes. AB is a root-two rectangle, BC is a square applied to it, CE is a diagonal to the excess area or to a square plus a root- two rectangle. AF is a root-two rectangle and its diagonal intersects CE at D, and fixes the… … Fig. 14. (Measured, drawn and analyzed by L. D. Caskey.) The ratio of a black-figured kylix from Yale, Fig. 15, is that of a square plus a root-two figure or 1.4I42 plus i. In this case the square is drawn in the center and a reciprocal root-two figure on either end. AB is the side of the square. C…

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