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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 160

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In the whirling square rectangle BC the line representing the widthof the foot passes through the point D. Therefore the foot width is equal tothe end of an area represented by two root-five rectangles. AB is one of these. The overall ratio of the black-figured kylix, 06.1097 in the… … Fig. 8. Black-figured Kylix 06.1097, Metropolitan Museum, New York.(Measured and drawn by the Museum Staff.) Ring-foot Kylix 01.8089, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Figs, ga and gi.Overall ratio 3.854, bowl, 2.854. Three whirling square rectangle reciprocals,.618, multiplied by three, equal 1.854, a…

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