...favour ' is more than that of colour; and that of decent and gracious2 motion more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot...trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions ; 3 the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent.4...

...I. (1990). Does God play dice?: The mathematics of chaos. Oxford: Blackwell. 1 1 Strange Attractors There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportions. — Francis Bacon / am strangely attracted to you. — Cole Porter I N THIS CHAPTER we...

...favour12 is more than that of colour;* and that of decent and gracious motion* more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot...tell whether Apelles* or Albert Durer* were the more trifler;13 whereof the one would make a personage14 by 1 passions 2 soon 3 weak, thin 4 acumen, sharpness...

...for this article is well expressed in a famous quotation from Renaissance philosopher Francis Bacon: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."' This statement is excerpted from one of Bacon's forays into what was then a developing literary form,...

...be systematically elaborated in the following chapters. Model Specification and Short-run Equilibria There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion — Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Beauty 2.1 INTRODUCTION Our simple aggregate macro-model seeks to incorporate...

...his memory. The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci Volume II, 1159 (p. 241) 15 BEAUTY Bacon, Francis There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. In Brian Vickers (Editor) Francis Bacon Essays Of Beauty (p. 425) Bridges, Robert Seymour For beauty...

...Motion, more then that of Favour. That is the best Part of Beauty, which a Picture cannot expresse; No, nor the first Sight of the Life. There is no Excellent Beauty, that hath not some 20 Strangenesse in the Proportion. A Man cannot tell, whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more...

...Cnidus in Caria, and of Apollo and Artemis at Delos. 4. Bacon (Essays, number 43, "Of Beauty") said: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." Poe was fond of these words. When he quoted them in the "Anastatic Printing" (BJ, April 12, 1845),...

...quest for beauty in science. His concept of beauty in science was based on the following two criteria: There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion! — Francis Bacon Beauty is the proper conformity of the parts to one another and to the whole. —...

...source, Francis Bacon (1561—1 626), the great English essayist. In Bacon's "Of Beauty," the line reads, "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." Cleomenes: The supposed Greek sculptor of the Venus of Medici. Carlson (2) reports that the dream sent...