Italian to English translations [PRO]
Science - Architecture / Geometry Euclid | | Italian term or phrase: constanza del medio proporzionale | This is the medio proporzionale as in the proof of Pythagoras' theorm by Euclid. And it is driving me mad. At eleven years old it was as easy as winky. I understand the basic concepts but I don't ever remember this precise term in English, just that the ratio of this is always equal to the ratio of that in congruent triangles.
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"La consapevole applicazione in architettura del concetto di costanza del medio proporzionale, definitivamente posto in termini scientifici da Euclide nei suoi due teoremi relativi al triangolo rettangolo, consente non solo di fissare uno dei canoni principi fra i rapporti di proporzione (quello che Luca Pacioli chiamerà Divina Proporzione, che nell'Ottocento verrà nominato radice aurea e che Le Corbusier nel 1946 indicherà come modulor) ma di proporre mutue relazioni anche con la curva della crescita degli organismi viventi e con la matematica, dato che proprio la curva della crescita stessa non è altro, infatti, che la rappresentazione grafica della spirale logaritmica." |
| | | English translation:constancy of the mean proportional | Explanation:
This is only based on a little investigation, not because I know for sure!
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Note added at 23 mins (2012-01-18 21:04:03 GMT)
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Well, maybe I just got lucky with my keywords...;)
Looks like an interesting job, best wishes, fionn |
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