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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 158

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ctangle 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, I4.136, Fig. 5, signed by Ni-kosthenes, has an overall area of three squares. The bowl area however is2.4472, /. e., two squares plus root-five. The width of the foot in relation…

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