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THE GOLDEN SECTION

The Golden Section origins in a mathematic ecuation, it is the basic number at work in aesthetics. The Golden Ratio was used by Leonardo da Vinci when painting the Mona Lisa, and by the Greeks in building the Parthenon. This number is in almost every thing in the universe, the human body has this relation in every part, the proportions of the face are based on the golden section.

The origin of the Golden Section comes from the mathematician Euclid, who first defined the Golden Ratio in around 300 BC. Euclid defined it as a line that can be divided into two unequal parts whit the relation of: an/an-1, where the ratio of the smaller part of the line to the longer part is the same as the ratio of the longer part to the whole. This ratio is 1.6180339887..., the Golden Number.

This number in also called as divine propotion, divine section, golder proportion or golden number. Eitherway you call it, this number can be found almost everywhere in the universe, in the structures of some metals, in the arrangement of seeds on flower heads, in the spirals of sea shells and galaxies, even in black holes. 

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