Eric Beam Pd. 8
The Golden Means
The Golden Means derives from ancient Greece about 2500
years ago. It’s a mathematical constant of 1.61803398874989. Its not only a
mathematical constant, but also used in architecture and how to build. Mostly
from every website it brings up the Egyptians, and how they built The Great
Pyramids. Another widely used topic was Leonardo Da Vinci and his Divine
Proportion. It has all of his drawings which contained section aurea or known
as the golden section. He used it a lot during the painting of the “The Last
Supper” for dimensions of where Christ and his disciples sat and it was
directly proportion to the wall and windows that were in the background shot.
But it wasn’t widely used as Phi until the
1900s when a American mathematician named Mark Barr started to used Greek
letters to designate the proportion.
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