Symmetry: Cultural-historical and Ontological Aspects of Science-Arts Relations; the Natural and Man-made World in an Interdisciplinary ApproachSpringer Science & Business Media, 25/06/2007 - 508 páginas The first comprehensive book on the topic in half a century explores recent symmetry – and symmetry breaking – related discoveries, and discusses the questions and answers they raise in diverse disciplines: particle and high-energy physics, structural chemistry and the biochemistry of proteins, in genetic code study, in brain research, and also in architectural structures, and business decision making, to mention only a few examples. |
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... perfect harmony, and, almost two millennia later, the studies of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) or Albrecht D ̈urer (1471–1528) on the perfection of human proportions. The harmony of the human body also expresses the harmony of the world ...
... perfect harmony, and, almost two millennia later, the studies of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) or Albrecht D ̈urer (1471–1528) on the perfection of human proportions. The harmony of the human body also expresses the harmony of the world ...
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... perfect images exist at all? If we stand facing one another, and both extend our right hands, our arms cross each other between our bodies. As our hands grasp each other, they mark a perpendicular axis of rotation between us, relative ...
... perfect images exist at all? If we stand facing one another, and both extend our right hands, our arms cross each other between our bodies. As our hands grasp each other, they mark a perpendicular axis of rotation between us, relative ...
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... perfect nature and symmetry of the world, I have only slightly dented this belief by drawing attention to minor symmetry breakings — the dissymmetry of the world — and yet, sooner or later, I will have to show that the world — if ...
... perfect nature and symmetry of the world, I have only slightly dented this belief by drawing attention to minor symmetry breakings — the dissymmetry of the world — and yet, sooner or later, I will have to show that the world — if ...
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... perfect symmetry does not exist. Symmetry refers to specific characteristics ofthe objects in question, but not to others. Following this, we also had to determine whether the world is full of astonishing asymmetries, and just as ...
... perfect symmetry does not exist. Symmetry refers to specific characteristics ofthe objects in question, but not to others. Following this, we also had to determine whether the world is full of astonishing asymmetries, and just as ...
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... perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death — Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why the builders of antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute variation from absolute symmetry in their columnar ...
... perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death — Hans Castorp felt he understood now the reason why the builders of antiquity purposely and secretly introduced minute variation from absolute symmetry in their columnar ...
Índice
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Symmetry in geometrical decorative art | 69 |
The golden section 97 | 96 |
Interdisciplinary applications 5 Fibonacci numbers in nature | 109 |
Perfection and beauty | 131 |
The mystery of fivefold symmetry 171 | 170 |
From viruses to fullerene molecules | 215 |
Sight and Hearing | 255 |
Symmetries and symmetry breakings in inanimate nature | 271 |
The road from nature to man 12 Chirality | 317 |
Cerebral asymmetries 351 | 349 |
Human Creativity | 373 |
Bibliography | 415 |
Sources of illustrations | 443 |
Subject index 459 | 458 |
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Página 44 - And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
Página 162 - And philosophers tell us, Callicles, that communion and friendship and orderliness and temperance and justice bind together heaven and earth and gods and men, and that this universe is therefore called Cosmos or order, not disorder or misrule, my friend.
Página 379 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show...
Página 381 - O attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
Página 23 - Yet each, in itself — this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all — each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was to this degree — the living principle shuddered at this perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death...
Página 44 - And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub : from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.