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Metrology and Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland
(2008)
Behan, Avril; Moss, Rachel
Metrology and Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland
(2008)
Behan, Avril; Moss, Rachel
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<p>The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which detailed empirical analysis of the metrology and proportional systems used in the design of Irish ecclesiastical architecture can be analysed to provide historical information not otherwise available. Focussing on a relatively limited sample of window tracery designs as a case study, it will first set out to establish what, if any, systems were in use, and then what light these might shed on the background, training and work practices of the masons, and, by association, the patrons responsible for employing them.</p>
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Symmetry and Beauty in Plato
(2010)
LLOYD, DAVID
Symmetry and Beauty in Plato
(2010)
LLOYD, DAVID
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Plato writes about Beauty in many of his dialogues, particularly in the Symposium, but he has no word equivalent to our "Symmetry", and this concept was not then formalised. Nevertheless, there are indications that some aspects of the concept were understood, if only intuitively. Plato has a very abstract concept of beauty, and when he uses "beauty" to characterise the so-called "Platonic Solids" in the Timaeus, he seems to be emphasising at least their regularity. It can be argued that the way in which he specifies the detailed construction of the solids is remarkably close to a modern description in terms of (point) symmetry. For Plato, something of our symmetry is included in what he means by beauty, and the long mathematical approach to symmetry starts with the Timaeus.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/39162
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