What is : Proportion ?
"The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. They are due to proportion, in Greek ἁναλογἱα. Proportion is a correspondence among the measures of the members of an entire work, and of the whole to a certain part selected as standard. From this result the principles of symmetry. Without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple; that is, if there is no precise relation between its members, as in the case of those of a well shaped man." What is : Proportion ? [Pythagorus and Plato on proportion] : Pythagoras was the first to discover the diatonic scale in music, which led to the development of the system of proportions, having harmonious relationships such as the perfect fifth (3:2), minor seventh (16:9) and so on, this method is called the Pythagorean tuning which is a tuning of the syntonic temperament in which the generator is the ratio 3:2 (i.e., the unt...