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The author advances a unified account of aesthetic harmony grounded in numerical and geometric ratios, adapting Pythagorean ideas to explain beauty in sound, form, color, and ornament. The text demonstrates how rectilinear constructions, ellipses, and harmonic parts of the right angle produce pleasing proportions in architecture, vases, and the human head and figure, and includes plates and diagrams that illustrate stepwise constructions and variations. Appendices supply technical elaboration, while practical commentary indicates how artists and designers might apply these mathematical principles to achieve balanced forms and color relationships.

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Title: The science of beauty, as developed in nature and applied in art

Author: D. R. Hay

Release date: February 17, 2025 [eBook #75399]

Language: English

Original publication: Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1856

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THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,
PAUL’S WORK.

THE

SCIENCE OF BEAUTY,

AS DEVELOPED IN NATURE AND
APPLIED IN ART.

BY
D. R. HAY, F.R.S.E.

“The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.”

Dr Johnson.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS,
EDINBURGH AND LONDON.
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TO
JOHN GOODSIR, ESQ., F.R.S S. L. & E.,
PROFESSOR OF ANATOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH,
AS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR VALUABLE ASSISTANCE,
AS ALSO OF HIGH ESTEEM AND SINCERE REGARD,
THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED,
BY

THE AUTHOR.