The Egyptian Pyramids, the Parthenon, a butterfly, Elizabeth Hurley and Tom Cruise. The answer is Phi – a way to define beauty.
Webster’s dictionary defines “beauty” as ”those qualities of a person or a thing that gives pleasure to the senses or the mind.” Leonardo di Vinci saw much beauty in nature and studied it in depth. After years of thoughtful contemplation, he made the following discoveries. Plants and animals grow following precise mathematical laws.
The key to beauty is a particular geometrical formula. He found that beauty is present in the Universe and Beauty is found in many human faces. Beautiful people and things evoke pleasurable feelings within us. The science that explains that beauty is known as the golden proportion. It uses the mathematical proportion 1:1618.
1618 is Phi. In a beautiful face, the width of the nose and the distance between the corners of the mouth is 1:1618. This same scientific proportion applies to a beautiful smile and the proportions of the teeth. The width of the front two teeth and the width of the two side teeth is 1:1618.
A beautiful smile is one that fits the golden proportion, along with the right shape, shade and symmetry of the teeth. Imagine the teeth are the picture and the frame is the gums that surround the teeth. Both have to be proportional to look beautiful.
The Golden Proportion, phi, has been observed to evoke emotion or aesthetic feelings within us. The ancient Egyptians used it in the construction of the great pyramids and in the design of hieroglyphs found on tomb walls. At another time, thousands of miles away, the ancients of Mexico embraced phi while building the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacan. The Greeks studied phi closely through their mathematics and used it in their architecture. The Parthenon at Athens is a classic example of the use of the Golden Rectangle. Plato in his Timaeus considered it the most binding of all mathematical relations and makes it the key to the physics of the cosmos. During the Renaissance, phi served as the “hermetic” structure on which great masterpieces were composed. Renowned artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci made use of it for they knew of its appealing qualities. Evidence suggests that classical music composed by Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach embraces phi.
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