- Adolf Zeising
Adolf Zeising was a German psychologist, whose main interests were mathematics and philosophy.
Among his discoveries, Zeising found the
golden ratio expressed in the arrangement of branches along the stems of plants and of veins in leaves. He extended his research to the skeletons of animals and the branchings of their veins and nerves, to the proportions of chemical compounds and the geometry of crystals, even to the use of proportion in artistic endeavors. In these phenomena he saw the golden ratio operating as a universal law.cite book |author=Padovan, Richard |title=Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=London |year=1999 |pages=305-306 |isbn=0-419-22780-6 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Vk_CQULdAssC&pg=PA306&dq=%22all+formative+striving+for+beauty%22&output=html&sig=ACfU3U0cVQuScCBAs4PejAlll2DtnHnPyQ |doi= |accessdate=] Zeising wrote in 1854:Many of his studies were followed by
Gustav Fechner Fact|date=June 2008, andLe Corbusier , who elaborated his studies of human proportion to develop theModulor . [cite book |author=Tavernor, Robert |title=Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Conn |year=2007 |pages=166 |isbn=0-300-12492-9 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8kg-t6xsv48C&pg=PA166&dq=%22Adolf+Zeising%22&output=html&sig=ACfU3U3HRKcclUiALtGnFWLPeRlmyWz9hA]References
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