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The Venus de Milo respects the golden formula in its proportions.
Photo: Explica
Photo: Explica
Throughout history, the golden ratio It has contributed to the technical and artistic advances of mankind. From architecture and music, to the plastic production of various cultures, it has been used to embellish human creations. In the 16th century, the mathematician Luca Pacioli named it as divine proportion.
However, its use dates back to Antiquity, during the esplendor of Classical Greece. Phi (Φ), as it is denoted in mathematical language, it has manifested itself from time immemorial in mathematics and in the Universe. Although this is true, there is no exact record of when it was first discovered and used. This explains why in different cultures it has acquired various nomenclatures.
Use in Classical Greece
This proportion stems from an almost cultic search for find perfection in the shapes of the environment. It is based on the fact that two or more elements are in the golden ratio when they keep a harmonic relationship with each other and with the rest of the elements in space...
Another use that was given to it during the splendor of classical thought was in philosophy. Plato (428 BC – 347 AD), in the Timaeus, he considered the golden ratio to be the key to understand the cosmos, insofar as it was the mathematical reason most linked to nature.
