{"id":336,"date":"2017-11-27T22:57:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T22:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writehanded.org\/poetry\/?p=336"},"modified":"2017-11-27T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T22:57:31","slug":"without-mathematics-there-is-no-art-luca-pacioli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/2017\/11\/27\/without-mathematics-there-is-no-art-luca-pacioli\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWithout Mathematics There is No Art\u201d – Luca Pacioli"},"content":{"rendered":"

Propesterous.<\/em><\/p>\n

What a grandiose claim.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m personally offended, Sir.<\/p>\n

Maths has nothing to do with<\/em> poetry.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(That\u2019s not true, of course, but I\u2019m allowed to say it<\/p>\n

– It\u2019s called poetic license<\/em> – )<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s the strange thing about language<\/p>\n

It never does quite what you expect,<\/p>\n

and therein lies the rub. Poets don\u2019t want to be predictable<\/p>\n

and numbers always are.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The golden mean<\/em>, having been discovered, and rediscovered, and renamed, over several centuries<\/p>\n

is one of the greatest numbers there is<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Da Vinci\u2019s sectio aurea <\/em><\/p>\n

Luca Pacioli\u2019s Divine Proportion<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The simple symbol Phi<\/em><\/p>\n

for the Greek artist and architect Phideas<\/p>\n

who died in exile, falsely accused<\/p>\n

of stealing the gold for a statue of the virgin Goddess Athena<\/p>\n

inside the Parthenon<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Phi<\/em> is present<\/p>\n

in The Last Supper<\/em><\/p>\n

in veins, leaves, and nerves<\/p>\n

in Da Vinci, Dali, and Corbusier<\/p>\n

in the geometry of stone<\/p>\n

and in the magnetic resonance of spins in cobalt niobate crystals<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is the closest reason I have ever been given<\/p>\n

for believing in God<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So, poet, you may yell all you like<\/p>\n

about licenses, and numbers, and words with exponential meaning.<\/p>\n

But the ages do not listen to you<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And perhaps when you learn<\/p>\n

of the life given by an organ<\/p>\n

from someone else\u2019s body<\/p>\n

you may rememeber<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That silence is golden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Propesterous. What a grandiose claim. I\u2019m personally offended, Sir. Maths has nothing to do with poetry.   (That\u2019s not true, of course, but I\u2019m allowed to say it – It\u2019s Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writehanded.org\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}