How do you divide a line into three? Or five? Or seven? Is there a
simple way to marry harmony and geometry? What is the secret
diagram alluded to by writers of antiquity? In this groundbreaking
book, philosopher Adam Tetlow reveals the long lost Helicon, the
master diagram of the ancient arts and crafts.Watch in astonishment
as this magical geometric figure produces simple fractions, musical
harmonies, Pythagorean triangles, perspective and more. WOODEN
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