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Dynamic symmetry; the Greek vase (1920)

Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund · New Haven, Conn., New York City, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 109

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ithout its cover, is the .809 ratio. AC, or the area of the cover, is the .382 shape. The point H is the eye ot the whirling square rectangle AJ. Consequently, the area of half the foot is a root-five rectangle and the whole area of the foot is equal to two such shapes or a root-twenty rectangle. F… … Fig. 3«. Fig. T,b- R. F. Pyxis in the Boston Museum. (Measured, drawn and anahzed by L. D. Caskev'.) 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 is a root-five…

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