The following quote was found here (The Mathematics of Palladio's Villas - Stephen R. Wassall)
"The very same numbers that cause sounds to have that concinnitas, pleasing to the ears, can also fill the eyes and mind with wondrous delight." - Leone Battista Alberti, De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books)
which led me here.
"...the three principal components of that whole theory into which we inquire are number, what we might call outline, and position. But arising from the composition and connection of these three is a further quality in which beauty shines full face: our term for this is concinnitas"
I have found myself struggling with the obsession of Geometric Analysis of local works by Jefferson. Perhaps more focus should be placed in the importance of the concinnitas of his work.
I all the time used to study piece of writing in news papers but now as I am a user of net thus from now I am using net for articles, thanks to web.
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