THE DIAGONAL

www.sacredscience.com Sacred Science Institute. 2006. Deluxe Hardcover Facsimile Edition Privately Printed. H Hard Cover Maroon Suede Guilt. New. Exact Facsimile Reprint of Original Edition Published: 1919-1920 255p. 100’s of Diagrams. VERY RARE. Hambidge’s most rare and detailed original work on Dynamic Symmetry. An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted To The Explanation Of the Rediscovered Principles of Greek Design, Their Appearance In Nature & Their Application To The Needs of Modern Art. Contents: Dynamic Symmetry (DS) Of The Plant; DS of the Human Figure For Advanced Students; The Difference Between Dynamic & Static Symmetry; Elements of DS; DS of Plant & How DS Was Discovered; DS of Man, Skull, Torso, Head, Pelvis; Greek Design vs. Italian Imitation; Construction For Similarity of Figure; Square Root & Root 5 Rectangle; The Root Rectangles; Section of Greek Wall & Pillar in British Museum; Compound of Rectangles & Relationships; Dynamic & Static Area; Fallacy of the “So-Called Golden Compass”; The Erechtheum Frieze; DS of Hand & Foot; Leonardo & Vitruvian Proportions of Human Figure; Beginning of DS in Ancient Greece; DS & Life Class Work; Hindu Method of Laying Out a Statue; Symmetry Used By Egyptian Designers 4000 Years Ago; DS Rectangles as Pattern Bases; Unfolded Cube; Transitional Designers of Ancient Greece; Ratios Most Frequently Used, Their Reciprocals & Simple Divisions; The Spiral & Other Curves of Dynamic Symmetry; True Inwardness of Hambidge’s Theory of DS; Did The Egyptian Amasis Teach The Greeks Dynamic Proportion?; Structural Scheme For An Amasis Amphora.