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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 36

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ine AK. The rectangles inside the square are the reciprocals of therectangles outside the square. A root-two rectangle inside the square, for ex-ample, is one-half the area of the root-two rectangle outside the same square;a root-three inside, one-third of a root-three outside; a root-four inside,… … Fiii. 10. The whirling square rectangle and the root-five rectangle are placed withina square thus: Fig. iia. Fig. 11^. The square is first bisected by the line AB, to obtain a root-four rectangleor two squares. From the diagonal of this rectangle CB, unity, or BE, issubtracted to determine the…

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