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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice
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Release NotesThe thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed
much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its
divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the system that determines the dimension
and form of both man-made and natural structures, from Gothic cathedrals to
flowers, from music to the human body. By also involving the reader in practical
experiments, he leads with ease from simple principles to a grasp of the
logarithmic spiral, the Golden Proportion, the squaring of the circle and the
other ubiquitous ratios and proportions.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4
I The Practice of Geometry 7
II Sacred Geometry: Metaphor of Universal Order 16
III The Primal Act: The Division of Unity 23
Workbook 1 The Square Cut by its Diagonal; [radical]2 25
Workbook 2 The [radical]3 and the Vesica Piscis 32
Workbook 3 The [radical]5 36
IV Alternation 38
Workbook 4 Alternation 40
V Proportion and the Golden Section 44
Workbook 5 The Golden Proportion 48
VI Gnomonic Expansion and the Creation of Spirals 65
Workbook 6 Gnomonic spirals 67
VII The Squaring of the Circle 74
Workbook 7 Squaring the circle 74
VIII Mediation: Geometry becomes Music 80
Workbook 8 Geometry and Music 83
IX Anthropos 90
X The Genesis of Cosmic Volumes 96
Workbook 9 The Platonic Solids 98
Bibliography 110
Sources of Illustrations 111

Product Details

* ISBN: 0500810303
* ISBN-13: 9780500810309
* Format: Paperback, 1pp
* Publisher: Thames & Hudson
* Pub. Date: April 2002 Reprint
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