Origin of the Book:<p>

What is beauty? Beauty is harmonious and balanced. For Aristotle, beauty resided in order, symmetry, and definiteness. Plotinus, in believing that beauty must be present in the details as well as the whole, anticipated fractals, where each part is a fraction of the whole. Beauty, for St. Augustine, was synonymous with geometric form and balance. The parts of the human body have a harmonious beauty. Leonardo da Vinci believed that beauty resided in symmetry and proportion. His Vetruvian Man has the divine proportion 1.618 (Chapter 1).