Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund · New Haven, Conn., New York City, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 66
's craft are exactly of the same overall shape; the ratio in each case being 1. 207 1. This is a compound shape composed of the reciprocals of root four or half a square and root two, .5 plus .7071. The reciprocal of 1.207 1 is .8284, and this divided by two equals .41 42, or the difference between… … « .414^2 Fig. 7- "ig. 8. The containing rectangle of each pyxis design, therefore, is composed of two .4142 figures, /. e., two squares plus a root-two rectangle. (Figs. 7 and 8.) The details of the two designs, howiever, are proportioned or themed differ- ently. In the Boston example the line AB…
Design · Vases, Greek
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