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Title: Patterns of Symmetry
Description: Amherst [MA], Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1977. orig.cloth. 23x18cm, viii,152 pp, In a rubbed, torn & faded dustwrapper.. Minor rubbing. Side page-edges foxed. Good. ¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: Proceedings of the Symmetry Festival: The Many Faces of Symmetry; Color Symmetry & Its Significance for Science; Change Ringing: Theory & Practice; Renaissance Typographic Ornament: Origins, Use & Experiments; Orchestra, or a Poem on Dancing; Symmetry: Making the Unseeable Imaginable; The Framework of the Earth; The Perception of Order; Symmetries in Plants; Ambiguities in Symmetry-Seeking:Borges & Others; Notes of an Alchemist; The Theory of Patterns; A Final Focus.

Keywords: Symmetry, Proportion, Art, , , , , ,

Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS017079I