REQUIRED READING Rudolf Wittkower Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, [1971] 1998 Ratios and Proportions The Golden Section Winter 2002 Special Issue of the Nexus Network Journal, Guest Editor, Stephen R. Wassell The Golden Section RECOMMENDED READING Lionel March, Architectonics of Humanism: Essays on Numbers in Architecture, 1998 SWEET BRIAR LIBRARY: NA 2760 .M35 1998 RECOMMENDED READING Mario Livio, The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number, 2003 SWEET BRIAR LIBRARY: QA466 .H85 1970 RECOMMENDED READING H. E. Huntley, The Divine Proportion, 1970 SWEET BRIAR LIBRARY: QA466 .H85 1970 UNDER CONSTRUCTION Musical Proportions and Harmony RECOMMENDED READING Joscelyn Godwin, Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde, 1995 RECOMMENDED READING Joscelyn Godwin, The Harmony of the Spheres: A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music, 1993 "Renaissance artists," writes Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism [page 27], "firmly adhered to the Pythagorean concept 'All is Number' and, guided by Plato and the Neo-Platonists and supported by a long chain of theologians from Augustine onwards, they were convinced of the mathematical and harmonic structure of the universe and all creation." "If the laws of harmonic numbers pervade everything from the celestial spheres to the most humble life on earth, then our very souls must conform to this harmony. It is according to Alberti [i.e. Leon Battista Alberti], an inborn sense that makes us aware of harmony; he maintains, in other words, that the perception of harmony through the senses is possible by virtue of the affinity of our souls." UNDER CONSTRUCTION Sacred Geometry RECOMMENDED READING Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice, 1989 UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Further Reading Roy Howar Debussy in Proportion: A Musical Analysis, 1990 Moustafa Gadalla Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music, 2000 Garth E. Runion Golden Section, 1990 Hans Walser The Golden Section, 2001 Roger Herz-Fischler A Mathematical History of the Golden Number, 1998 SWEET BRIAR LIBRARY QA 481 .H47 1998 Matila Ghyka The Geometry of Art and Life, 1977

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