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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 103

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vase without its cover, is the.809 ratio. AC, or the area of the cover, is the .382 shape. The point H is the eyeof the whirling square rectangle AJ. Consequently, the area of half the foot is aroot-five rectangle and the whole area of the foot is equal to two such shapesor a root-twenty rectangle.… … ■T S ) w ( s ff- w ■ S Js Fig. 3a.R. F. Pyxis in the Boston Museum. Fig- 3^- (Measured, drawn and analyzed by L. D. Caskey.) Nolan amphora 10.184, Boston Museum, has an area ratio 1.691, Fig. 4.This is a shape which appears in the angle column adjustment of the Parthenon.AB and AC are squares. CD…

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