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Power of Limits Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture

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ISBN-10: 1590302591

ISBN-13: 9781590302590

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gyorgy Doczi

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One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature-designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend?The Power of Limitswas inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns-ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 10.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

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