Proportion
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    • Quick Review of Ratios and Proportion
    • Solutions
    • An Example of a System of Proportions: The Garden Houses of Ostia
    • Architects speak out on systems of proportion
    • Fall of Man
    • An Egyptian grid system
    • In Class Question
    • Vitruvius, on temples
    • Vitruvius' system of proportions
    • Vitruvian Men
    • Examples of Palladian Villas
    • The Modulor
    • The Sacred Cut (this page seems to work best from Safari)
    • The Sacred Cut in the Garden Houses at Ostia
    • Some ratios in the apartments
    • Sacred Cut Ratios (perhaps)in the Garden Houses
    • How Close is Close Enough? Preliminary Ideas
    • Precision
    • How Close Is Close Enough, revisited
    • Review: Error Ranges
    • Acceptance Ranges
    • Acceptance ranges for the Sacred Cut
    • A Mathematical Artist - Helaman Ferguson


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    Janice Sklensky
    Wheaton College
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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