Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture Catherine Burns Excerpts from the diaries throw

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Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture Catherine Burns Excerpts from the diaries throwThis handbook provides readers with a well illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy through the history of science, philosophy and architecture from the early Greeks through to the