Adolf Zeising
Psychologist, Deceased Person
1810 – 1876
Who was Adolf Zeising?
Adolf Zeising was a German psychologist, whose main interests were mathematics and philosophy.
Among his discoveries, Zeising found the golden ratio expressed in the arrangement of branches along the stems of plants and of veins in leaves. He extended his research to the skeletons of animals and the branchings of their veins and nerves, to the proportions of chemical compounds and the geometry of crystals, even to the use of proportion in artistic endeavors. In these phenomena he saw the golden ratio operating as a universal law,
Many of his studies were followed by Gustav Fechner and Le Corbusier, who elaborated his studies of human proportion to develop the Modulor.
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- Born
- 1810
- Also known as
- Адольф Цейзинг
- Цейзинг, Адольф
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- 1876
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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