The Parthenon and Other Greek Temples: Their Dynamic SymmetryYale University Press, 1924 - 103 էջ Presents author's theory that the Parthenon was designed according to the principles of dynamic symmetry. |
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The Parthenon and Other Greek Temples; Their Dynamic Symmetry Jay 1867-1924 Hambidge Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2021 |
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Էջ 86 - in power," but, as the particular power represented by Swu/u« in Greek geometry is square, I have thought it best to use the latter word throughout.
Էջ 86 - Aristotelis physicorum libros quatuor priores commentary, ed. H. Diels, pp. 61-68, Berlin, 1882) — and is so used, for the most part, in paragraphs which, according to the criterion laid down in P. 72, n. 45, must be regarded as genuine. Now since...
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Էջ 91 - MARBLE BLOCKS. for the present Parthenon. It is, however, the average length of twenty of the twenty-nine blocks of the lower step of the north side of the cella and of a number on the other sides. All these had doubtless been used in the older Parthenon. The height of these blocks is 0.385 m., the same, that is, as that of the uppermost course of the foundation in situ within the older cella (PLATE VIII). Ranged with this course, as seems most natural, the marble blocks will have in the older building...
Էջ 86 - ... however, the word seems not to be used steadily in the same signification, and in 148 A it certainly means 'root.
Էջ 86 - (Thecetetus of Plato, p. 21, note.) thinks that 'it is not clear that in Plato's time this point of terminology was fixed.
Էջ xiii - Hambidge presents in detail, by means of the most careful measurements and analyses, the evidence on which he bases his theory that the Parthenon was designed In accordance with the principles of proportion called by him "dynamic symmetry.
Էջ 86 - ... criterion laid down in p. 72, n. 45, must be regarded as genuine. Now since Eudemus, in this fragment, gives an analysis of the work of Hippocrates, and, moreover, frequently refers to him by name, it is probable that, in parts at least, he quoted the work on lunes textually, and that the word Swdfift, which occurs throughout, must have been used by Hippocrates, who we know was connected with the Pythagoreans.