It's a ratio often found in Classical architecture... roughly 1.618:1. The Parthenon, for example, is a rectangle with these proportions. In the modern era, the UN Secretariat tower in NYC is a vertical Golden Rectangle.
It's not a bad principle, but Lagrange seems to be drawing random lines all over his elevations and insisting that the proportions were inspired by God.
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