Friday, March 02, 2007

Khan Amore’s Illustration of the Divine Proportions Which Can Be Found in the Most Beautiful, Harmoniously-Proportioned Bodies:


When Khan Amore set forth to write this commentary, he decided that no such article would be complete without an illustration of the plurality of divine proportions which are to be found in Nature’s greatest work of art: the body of a beautiful woman. Braced for many expected hardships, he set aside an entire week for the purpose of dissecting his composite image of history’s greatest woman (the first female mathematician), then distorting it to be in conformity with the divine proportions listed above, finally to reassemble the figure, and thus to see what a body based entirely upon the divine proportion would look like....

http://www.hypatia-lovers.com/geometry/Divine_Proportion.html
This concludes this Commentary on the Divine Proportion, by Khan Amore, author of HYPATIA.



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