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Reasoned Mathematical
and Felt Ratios
Eudoxus (Third century BC) is the principal figure of another legend in which the truth of fiction is perhaps as acceptable as the truth of fact. He is said to have carried with him at all times a stick, which he asked friends and acquaintances to divide at whatever point they sensed to be the most pleasing. Much to his satisfaction, they chose more often than not the point of the Golden Section. Fact or fiction, this tale illustrates something important in art and design: the close relationship of intuitive perceptions or felt ratios to reasoned or mathematical ratios.

[Harlan, Calvin. Vision & Invention, An Introduction to Art Fundamentals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986.]













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