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Dynamic symmetry: the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven, Yale Univ. Press · leaf 74

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side of a rectangle the ratio for the shape is 1.7071, the scheme ot the Foggamphora of this chapter. An early black-figured kylix in the Fogg Museum, at Harvard, has the sameratio as the kylix from Yale (see Fig. 15), /. e., 2.4I42, a square and a root-twofigure. The method of subdivision however… … q S ^ T I F Fig. 17. Black-figured Kylix from the Fogg Museum, Harvard. composed of two squares and a root-two rectangle, the sides of which, added,equal the width of the toot. The square CJ in the root-two rectangle x^C de-termines the area LA, a square and a root-two rectangle. The square EMfixes…

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