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The Power of Limits

By Gyorgy Doczi

The Power of Limits Mathematics

The Power of Limits

By Gyorgy Doczi

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Description
One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature-designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns-ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made-by the dynamic union of opposites-as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2005-10-11
Publication Date:
2005-10-11
Publisher:
Shambhala
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1590302591
ISBN13:
9781590302590
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
513 g
Height:
268 cm
Width:
243 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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