Geometry of Greek vases : Attic vases in the Museum of fine arts analysed according to the principles of proportion discovered by Jay Hambidge (1922)
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GEOMETRY OF GREEK VASES base is unity, the height of the y/5 rectangle, and the side of its central square have the ratio .4472, the reciprocal of 2.236, or\^5. The base is divided into the … 146 -* .708 *-.l46-f * — 5 .5669 Diagrams XI and XII. Subdivisions of the whirling square rectangle ratios .2764+. 4472+. 2764. The diagram also accounts for the ratios .1382, .7236, and .1708. The ratio .4472 occurs at least thirty times in the vases analysed. In diagram XIV the y/ 5 rectangle is…
Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · Vases, Greek · Design
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