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The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
	Author: Gyorgy Doczi Publisher: Shambhala Category: Book List Price: ~~$24.95~~ Buy New: $14.21 You Save: $10.74 (43%) New (28) Used (13) from $12.45 Rating: 14 reviews Sales Rank: 58831 Media: Paperback Pages: 160 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1 Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 9.5 x 0.4 ISBN: 1590302591 Dewey Decimal Number: 117 EAN: 9781590302590 ASIN: 1590302591 Publication Date: October 11, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand new item. Over 4 million customers served. Order now. Selling online since 1995. Order with confidence. Code: B20090104225151T


Editorial Reviews: Product Description One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature?designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns?ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made?by the dynamic union of opposites?as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well.

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