Sentence examples for laws of proportion from inspiring English sources

He identified his investigations with the musical soul-searching of the medieval monasteries, the endless search for laws of proportion and symmetry that reflected social laws, astronomy, mechanics, morality – and the focus of Gregorian chants and plainsong on vital resolving tones, nucleus-notes around which everything else elegantly orbited.

In the 1730s and '40s, Wood developed a unique theory of architecture, and his later projects were influenced by his belief that the Druids had created a great civilization centred on Bath and that their architecture reflected divine laws of proportion and symbolism.

Without atomism the joint truth of the three laws of proportion is a mystery.

Berzelius questioned the experimental grounds for assuming anything stronger than the laws of proportion, since, he argued, all of the chemistry could be accommodated by the latter.

In his view, just as Newton had explained Kepler's laws with his new mechanics, so he, Dalton, had explained the laws of proportion with his atomism.

Alan Rocke (1984, 10 15 and 2013) interprets the use of formulae in organic chemistry as involving a chemical atomism that is weaker than physical atomism but stronger than a commitment only to laws of proportion.

His work adhered to classical laws of symmetry and proportion but deleted explicit symbols of classical style.

Inspir'd by thee, / The jarring Seeds of Matter did agree, / Thou didst the scatter'd Atoms bind, / Which, by thy Laws of true proportion join'd, / Made up of various Parts one perfect Harmony".

Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca had already offered proof of the mathematical basis of painting in their analysis of the laws of perspective and proportion, thereby buttressing his claim of painting being a science.

On the basis of the law of definite proportions, Dalton deduced the law of multiple proportions, which stated that when two elements form more than one compound by combining in more than one proportion by weight, the weight of one element in one of the compounds is in simple, integer ratios to its weights in the other compounds.

From this theory, which was demonstrated to agree with the law of definite proportions and from which the law of multiple proportions was derived, Dalton was able to calculate definite atomic weights by assuming the simplest possible ratio for the numbers of combining atoms.