It's true that what we call the 'golden section' was known in Greek Atiquity.[br]300 jaar BC Euclid described in his book [i]The Elements [/i]a construction in which '[i]a segment is devided into an extreme and a median ratio if the ratio of the total length and the greater part is equal to the ratio of the greater part and the smaller part.[/i]'[br]This, not more and no less was the status of what what we know as the golden sextion: '[i][b]the division into extreme and median ratio[/b][/i]'.[br]The name 'golden ratio' however wasn't known in Greek Antiquity

The ratio was also known in the Renaissance was de verhouding gekend. In 1509 Luca Pacioli even published a printed book, titled [url=https://www.geogebra.org/m/h9ywaeeg#chapter/1111358]Divina Proportio[/url] (the divine proportion). However Pacioli used this title based on philosophi-religious grounds. He goes into the geometrical properties and never speaks about it as an aesthetical ideal. Likewise architects and theorists as Alberti and Palladio prefer ratios of integers. [br][math]\sqrt{2}[/math], as the diagonal of a square with side 1, is the only exception.[br]In the 'Vitruvian man', the famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci there's no question of the golden section. In a text below and above his drawing da Vinci writes about the proportions in the human body. Those proportions he derives from the Roman architect Vitrivius. You only have to examine these proportions to discover that in this the golden ratio is totally irrelevant.[br]The navel is the center of the circle, but doesn't match with a height [math]\varphi=0.618[/math] of the length of the man.

The name 'golden section' first appears in 1717 in a book by Johann Wenceslaus Kaschube. It's only in 1854 that the name becomes famous, when Adolf Zeising publishes a book titled: "[i]Neue lehre von den proportionen des menschlichen körpers, aus einem bisher unerkannt gebliebenen, die ganze natur und kunst durchdringenden morphologischen grundgesetze entwickelt und mit einer volständigen historischen uebersicht der bisherigen systeme begleitet[/i]". [br]Translated "A [i]New doctrine on the proportions of the human body, developed from a morphologial basic law that wasn't recognised until now and that implies the whole nature and art."[/i][br][url=https://www.geogebra.org/m/cz8ggxgt#material/gww9h6sf]The proportion becomes a myth[/url], alive until today.