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The science of beauty, as developed in nature and applied in art
D. R. Hay
Beauty follows number, argues D. R. Hay, from the harmony of sounds to the proportions of form. Drawing on the Pythagorean system of ratio, he traces the science of beauty through nature and art. Ambitious, systematic, and curious. A nineteenth-century attempt to find the mathematics behind what we find lovely. Note: an aesthetics treatise on proportion and harmony, filed among nature titles by category.
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42 chapters
- 1THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3CONTENTS.
- 4ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5PLATES
- 6INTRODUCTION.
- 7THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY EVOLVED FROM THE HARMONIC LAW OF NATURE, AGREEABLY TO THE PYTHAGOREAN SYSTEM OF NUMERICAL RATIO.
- 8THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY AS APPLIED TO SOUNDS.
- 9THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY AS APPLIED TO FORMS.
- 10On the Rectilinear Forms and Proportions of Architecture.
- 11On the Curvilinear Forms and Proportions of Architecture.
- 12THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, AS DEVELOPED IN THE HUMAN HEAD AND COUNTENANCE.
- 13THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, AS DEVELOPED IN THE FORM OF THE HUMAN FIGURE.
- 14THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, AS DEVELOPED IN COLOURS.
- 15First Series of Scales.
- 16Second Series of Scales.
- 17THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY, APPLIED TO THE FORMS AND PROPORTIONS OF ANCIENT GRECIAN VASES AND ORNAMENTS.
- 18The Portland Vase.
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