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Verlag: Koln: Evergreen, 2008
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- Hardcover
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Condition Notes: Small ding to the top edge of the lower board; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over pictorial boards; Measures 8½" x 7¾" (1.3 kg); pp 203; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Photographs, black-and-white and colour, within the text; Diagrams; Glossary; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201608 ||.
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- Titel
- The Secret Code: The Mysterious Formula That Rules Art, Nature, and Science
- Autor
- Priya Hemenway
- Verlag
- Koln: Evergreen
- Veröffentlichungsjahr
- 2008
- Zustand
- Very Good
- Schutzumschlag
- Very Good
- Einband
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- ISBN-10
- 3836507110
- ISBN-13
- 9783836507110
- Ausgabe
- 1. Auflage
- Verkäuferkataloge
- Mathematics
The Divine Proportion reveals a number of simple patterns: It is seen in the seed patterns of fruits, the family tree of bees, the pyramids of Egypt, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance paintings, the human body, shells ... the list is endless.
Mathematicians use the Greek symbol Φ to represent the Divine Proportion and equate it to a number that is defined by the ratio (1 + √5) / 2 or 1.6180339.... Numbers do little, however, in describing this unique ratio that is found everywhere in nature and for 2500 years has been an aesthetic guide in art and architecture.
Beginning with calculations found on clay tablets in ancient Babylon, the story of Divine Proportion can be traced alongside the history of numbers to the fractals of the digital age. As its many forms unfold we uncover the Golden Rectangle in the Parthenon, Golden Spirals in the human inner ear, a Golden Angle in the petal patterns of a rose, and the Fibonacci numbers in lilies, daisies, pineapples, and in our own DNA.
With its natural balance and elegant beauty, the Divine Proportion is a perpetual reminder that our hope for regeneration and continuity lies in realizing the meaningful and harmonious relationship of all the parts to the whole.
This book deals with the Divine Proportion, a secret code that rules art, nature, and science. It is known by many names: Golden Mean, Sacred Cut and Phi are only a few; and it is not by chance that the Divine Proportion was given its name. It has been called divine because over thousands of years it has been deemed to be so.
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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
Priya Hemenway besuchte die McGill University in Montreal, wo sie Altgriechisch und Mathematik studierte. Danach lebte sie viele Jahre in Indien, wo sie östliche Philosophie, Meditation sowie die heiligen orientalischen Schriften studierte. Hemenway lebt heute als Schriftstellerin und Fotografin in der Bay Area.
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