Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924 · New Haven : Yale University Press · leaf 38
DYNAMIC SYMMETRY 22 placed in the center of the shape 1.38a, the "defect" area on either side is com- posed of a square and a whirling square rectangle. Fig. 7- The reciprocal of 1.382 is .7236; .4472 multiplied by 2 equals .8944, and this result added to .7236 equals 1.618. (See Fig. 8.) The area… … Fig. 8. All of these shapes are found in abundance in both Egyptian and Greek art. The square is considered the unit form or monad. "Iamblicus (fl. circa 300 A. D.) tells us that . . . 'an unit is the boundary between number and parts because from it, as from a seed and eternal root, ratios…
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