Geometry of the Parabola according to the Golden Number

To cover spaces is the main architectural problem faces man. He, in their best achievements for solve it, finds solutions that join conditions of beauty, constructive easiness, saving of materials and good structural quality, repeating perfect forms of nature. 

This has occurred with the parabolic and pointed arches, whose geometry is present in the section of a body existing in the nature that has a system of great stability due to the harmony between its parts.

The author found the parabola in the elongated part of the longitudinal section of the hen's egg. He considered that this should have its form configured by the Golden Number, whose presence is over all in all that has life or relation with life. 

He checked this ruling manifestation that transcends the knowledge of the egg. The result, in addition to benefiting the design and construction of the parabolic and pointed arches, contributes to the better knowledge of the parabola.

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