The Secret Code

The Divine Proportion reveals a number of simple patterns : It is seen in the seed patterns of fruits, the family tree of bees, the pyramids of Egypt, Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance paintings, the human body, shells ... the list is endless. Mathematicians use the Greek symbol ? to represent the Divine Proportion and equate it to a number that is defined by the ratio (1 + ? 5) / 2 or 1. 6180339...

This book deals with the Divine Proportion, a secret code that rules art, nature, and science. It is known by many names : Golden Mean, Sacred Cut and Phi are only a few ; and it is not by chance that the Divine Proportion was given its name. It has been called divine because over thousands of years it has been deemed to be so.