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xvii, 174 pages including illustrations, plates, plan, diagrams 24 cm Proportion 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 Go

Author

Matila Ghyka

Publisher

New York, Sheed and Ward

Published

1946

Language

EN

Subjects

Art, Arts

Rating

4.16 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13