alt Hacker NewsI had to put this one through Claude, but it boils down to:
> A culture's felt sense of proportion, ratio, and spatial order manifest directly through the hands of masons and sculptors, without necessarily needing the mathematical formalism of proofs, axioms, and treatises.
Not sure how I feel about this, as the Familia was absolutely built in a context of formalised mathematical sciences.
It seems somewhat important to me to know if something was done because it looked pretty, was random or because there was an intent to reflect maths, science, planetary alignment etc.