What is Beauty?
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So what is beauty? First let me perhaps surprise you by stating that beauty can be defined numerically:1.6180339887. That is beauty that is the golden ratio (fig 1). It was described by the Pythagorean mathematicians, as they kept seeing this ratio in things regarded as beautiful, and it was first written down by Euclid, and can be expressed either as a linear relationship or as a shape, in either case the ratio is (a+b) is to a as a is to b and is behind the pattern of many shapes we find pleasing, be it architecture, form, people all tend to this ratio when regarded as beautiful, and with that ratio we also expect to find balance and symmetry. The Parthenon has these ratios, and balance. People also and if we look at those regarded today as beautiful, then again the ratio applies, as does symmetry, both to the face and body. The head forms a golden rectangle and the mouth and nose are placed at golden sections of the distance between the eyes and the chin, and there are many others present and when we look at the human body then the INTRODUCTION
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