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61List of works designed with golden ratio — Works designed with the golden ratio are works of human design that are proportioned according to the golden ratio, an irrational number that is approximately 1.618; it is often denoted by the Greek letter φ (phi).Early historyIt is claimed that… …
62South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
63INDE - Les arts — L’art indien a fourni une contribution importante et originale au patrimoine artistique de l’humanité. Contribution importante par la persistance, jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine, d’une tradition dont les manifestations matérielles n’apparaissent… …
64Church History — Ecclesiastical History † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical History I. NATURE AND OFFICE Ecclesiastical history is the scientific investigation and the methodical description of the temporal development of the Church… …
65ANALOGIE — La notion d’analogie a connu une telle fortune qu’il semble presque impossible de lui conférer une définition dépourvue d’équivoque. Son usage premier, en mathématique pythagoricienne, ne présageait aucun glissement: elle était la formule… …
66Western sculpture — ▪ art Introduction three dimensional artistic forms produced in what is now Europe and later in non European areas dominated by European culture (such as North America) from the Metal Ages (Europe, history of) to the present. Like… …
67Notion de module — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Module. Un module est une unité de mesure conventionnelle adoptée pour régler les diverses parties d un ensemble (construction, machine...). Il correspond à la plus petite commune mesure que doivent posséder les… …
68education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
69Canons of page construction — The canons of page construction are a set of principles in the field of book design used to describe the ways that page proportions, margins and type areas (print spaces) of books are constructed. The notion of canons, or laws of form, of book… …
70Judaism — /jooh dee iz euhm, day , deuh /, n. 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the… …
