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Article: The Divine Proportion, Friar Pacioli and Phidias (Conclusion).(Sports)
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- September 25, 2004
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The readers of Dan Browns The Da Vinci Code should not be too credulous about the historical facts foisted by the novel because Brown has used poetic license to the hilt to provide a suave but wholesale propaganda against Christianity and the Catholic Church, making them the heinous culprits of deceit and cruelties. However, the mathematical asides of the novel are generally reliable, especially with regard to the Divine Proportion AKA the Golden Ratio AKA phi=1.618 (rounded to three places) and Da Vincis use of it in his drawings.
Franciscan Friar Pacioli is generally recognized as the Father of Accounting and the one mainly responsible for making the Golden ...