The “Golden Canon” of Book-Page Design: A Visual Presentation Using Geometer’s Sketchpad

Year: 2012 Authors: Stanley M. Max

Core claim

Some medieval and early-modern book layouts closely fit the golden canon’s proportional rules, though not all pages do.

Topics

book-page design, geometric proportion, manuscript layout, print history

Domains

Euclidean geometry, similar triangles, proportional reasoning, book arts, typography, page composition, visual presentation

Methods

photographic comparison, Geometer’s Sketchpad animation, overlay analysis, geometric reconstruction

Media

historical manuscripts, printed books, computer-generated rays, page photographs

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