REDISCOVERY

This principle of proportion has been known since the time of the Ancient Greeks, and has been rediscovered, described and studied by many famous people who applied it in their own fields. Artists, Borissavlievitch 1958; Leonardo 1490; Dürer, 1528; Ghyka 1964; mathematicians, Huntley 1970; Gardner, 1966; architects, Corbusier, 1961; musicians, Lendvai, 1971; scientists, Thompson, 1952; Coxeter, 1961 Gyorgi Doczi , Hambridge 1921; philosophers, Koestler, 1962; psychologists, Benyafield & Adams, 1976.. In the same way the author rediscovered the Golden Proportion and brought it to the attention of the dental world in 1978. Space only allows for the briefest reference to a few of the rediscoveries. Huntley, a modern mathematician, wrote an informative book called The Divine Proportion, the whole of which was devoted to the study of the Golden Proportion. The cover features a Golden Proportion spiral built on a triangle. La Corbusier, the highly acclaimed Parisian architect, developed a scale for architecture, the "modular", which is based on the golden sections of the human body. His famous buildings were all based on the Golden Proportion. His book "La Modular" has been reprinted numerous times. It was known that Bela Bartok (1881-1945) used secret methods in his musical compositions. In a book written and researched by Lendavi it was revealed that he used the principles of the Golden Proportion extensively in his compositions.