Talk:Modulor

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The first paragraph read:

Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvian Man, the work of Leon Battista Alberti, and other attempts to discover a natural underlying relationship between the proportions of the human body and the Golden Mean, and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture.

This seems to imply that Vitruvius (or his interpreters) or Alberti worked with the golden ratio, which is unsubstantiated, and most likely incorrect. Vitruvius used whole numbers, i.e. rational ratios, and da Vinci's famous Homo ad circulum, illustrating a paragraph in Vitruvius, has no convincing golden ratios, and there is no contemporary writings to support the idea. The golden ratio did not seriously enter into aesthetical analysis before the "psychophysics" of Gustav Fechner at the end of the 19th century. Therefore, I have changed the 1st paragraph into:

Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvian Man, the work of Leon Battista Alberti, and other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body, and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture.

--Niels Ø 11:37, May 27, 2005 (UTC)