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The Golden Ratio : The Story of Phi, the Extraordinary Number of Nature, Art and Beauty

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Gardners Books (July 31, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0747249881
ISBN-13: 978-0747249887
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.7 inches
Amazon Rank: 1940884
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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What do the Parthenon in Greece, crosses in graveyards, the ratio of the height of the navel to a woman's total height, sunflowers and Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" have in common? The answer is that these disparate elements share a geometrical proportion of ancient origin, commonly known as the 'Golden Ratio', or expressed numerically as phi. In a captivating journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, taking in fractals and DNA ...

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