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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 48

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e compound rectangles. There is unquestionable documentary evidence that the use of the compound rectangles, found so plentifully in Greek art, was not arbitrary. Their bases exist in nature and it is historical that the Greeks thoroughly understood the source from which they are derived. (See the… … Fie. \b. V\si.. 1(7. The leaf is shown above in Fig. irt, ami the resemblance ot the shape itself and of its trussing to the regular pentagon and its diagonals, is apparent in Fig. \b. In a regular pentagon inscribed in a circle the relation of the radius of the escribed circle to the radius of the…

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