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Geometry has two great treasuresone is the theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel. (Johannes Kepler)
To the Greeks therefore, and not to the Romans, we are indebted for all that is great, judicious, and distinct in architecture.
allude to a proper application of the useful rules of architecture, whence a structure will derive figure, strength, and beauty, and whence will result a due proportion and a just correspondence in all its parts.
Hmmmm
It seems as though the GAOTU may have laid out the designs for creation on his trestleboard using, among other things, the Divine Proportion.
While we are employed in the study of this science we must perceive unparalleled instances of wisdom and goodness, and, through the whole creation, trace the Glorious Author by his works.
Columns, anyone?
The graceful curves of the Ionic column are designed using the Golden Section.
VOSL
Exodus 25:10 Have them make a chest of acacia wood = two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high (ratio 2.5:1.5 = 5:3 = 1.666) Genesis 6:15 And this is the fashion that thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits (50:30 = 5:3 = 1.666) = 1.618033 or (1+5)/2
Anything Else?
It is likely that Virgils Aeneid and other great works of classical poetry used to determine metrical structure of the poem. Mozarts sonatas tend to divide in parts exactly at the Golden Section of total time of the work. In Beethovens 5th Symphony the opening motto is repeated at exactly the point through the Symphony (Bar 372) and also at the start of the recapitulation 1- of the way through. Stradivarius placed the f holes in his violins at the point of the body structure.
Hmmmm (revisited)
It now seems that the Divine Proportion was and still is used by men and women to build beautiful monuments and other works that are pleasing to the senses.
so as to compose delightful harmony by a mathematical and proportional arrangement of acute, grave, and mixed sounds.
The Fibonacci series (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,13, 21) which describes the growth pattern of a population, is connected to the Golden Mean, because the ratio of any 2 terms tends towards For instance.. 2:1 = 2.000, 8:5 =1.600, 13:8 = 1.625, 21:13 = 1.615 = 1.618033 or (1+5)/2 Each number in the series is called a Fibonacci Number
Fibonacci Bunnies
Start with one pair Mate during first month One pair born next month and each month thereafter
The spirals increase in distance from the centre by phi every quarter turnsea shells, snails, ferns, and many other living creatures are built to this specification
Operative Masonry
How did our ancient brethren construct such mathematically rigorous designs, using only the tools that were available to them?
I ask you now, Brethren: Is it still true in your minds that there are no secrets in Freemasonry?