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001 ocm01003615
003 OCoLC
005 20191109073341.4
008 740910s1946 nyuaef 000 0 eng c
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100 1 $aGhyka, Matila C.$q(Matila Costiescu),$d1881-1965.
245 14 $aThe geometry of art and life,$cby Matila Ghyka.
260 $aNew York,$bSheed and Ward,$c1946.
300 $axvii, 174 pages including illustrations, plates, plan, diagrams$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aProportion in space and time -- Ockham's principle of economy -- The ten types of proportion -- Proportion, symmetry, eurhythmy -- The golden section -- The Fibonacci series and the golden section -- Phyllotaxis and "ideal angle" in botany -- Geometrical shapes on the plane -- Geometrical shapes in space -- The five regular polyhedra or Platonic bodies -- The thirteen semiregular Archimedian bodies -- Regular prisms and anti-prisms -- The two continuous star-dodecahedra of Kepler -- The "chamber of the king" in the Great Pyramid -- Regular hypersolids in the fourth dimension -- The regular partitions on the plane and in space -- Crystal lattices -- The principle of least action, most general law for inorganic systems -- The geometry of life -- Harmonious growth and logarithmic spiral -- Flowers and shells -- The transmission of geometrical symbols and plans -- Life and legend of Pythagoras -- Pythagorean number-mystic -- Neo-Pythagorism and Kabbala -- From the antique builders' guilds to the masons' guilds of the Middle Ages -- Masons' marks and fundamental design -- Masonic traditions and symbols -- Greek and Gothic canons of proportion -- Rediscovery of the Greek and Gothic canons of architecture -- Proportion and dynamic symmetry -- The dynamic rectangles of Hambridge and the directing circles of Moessel -- Greek vases, Greek temples, and the human body -- Gothic master plans -- Symphonic composition -- Seurat's divisionism.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aProportion.
650 0 $aProportion (Art)
650 0 $aAesthetics.
650 7 $aAesthetics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00798702
650 7 $aProportion.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01079236
650 7 $aProportion (Art)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01079240
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGhyka, Matila C. (Matila Costiescu), 1881-1965.$tGeometry of art and life.$dNew York, Sheed and Ward, 1946$w(OCoLC)613122782
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