CONTENTS

VITRUVIUS ON GREEK SYMMETRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
PREDICTION BY EDMOND POTTIER IN 1906 RELATIVE TO GREEK
SYMMETRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
CHAPTER ONE: THE BASIS OF DESIGN IN NATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
CHAPTER TWO: THE ROOT RECTANGLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
CHAPTER THREE: THE LEAF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
CHAPTER FOUR: ROOT RECTANGLES AND SOME VASE FORMS . . . . . 44
CHAPTER FIVE: PLATO'S MOST BEAUTIFUL SHAPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
CHAPTER SIX: A BRYGOS KANTHAROS AND OTHER POTTERY EX-
AMPLES OF SIMILAR RECTANGLE SHAPES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
CHAPTER SEVEN: A HYDRIA, A STAMNOS, A PYXIS AND OTHER
VASE FORMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
CHAPTER EIGHT: FURTHER ANALYSES OF VASE FORMS . . . . . . . . . . 91
CHAPTER NINE: SKYPHOI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
CHAPTER TEN: KYLIKES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
CHAPTER ELEVEN: VASE ANALYSES, CONTINUED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
CHAPTER TWELVE: STATIC SYMMETRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138