Sacred Geometry: Philosophy & Practice

 Robert Lawlor

Thames & Hudson | 1982 | 112 páginas | pdf | 17 Mb

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An introduction to the geometry which, as modern science now confirms, underlies the structure of the universe.

The 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 the 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 other ubiquitous ratios and proportions. 

Contents
Introduction 4
The Practice of Geometry 7
Sacred Geometry : Metaphor of Universal Order 16
The Primal Act: The Division of Unity 23
Workbook 1 : The Square Cut by its Diagonal; square root 2 25-27
Workbook 2: The square root 3 and the Vesica Piscis 32-33
Workbook 3: The square root 5 36-37
Alternation
Workbook 4: Alternation 4W1
Proportiorl andthe Golden Section
Workbook 5: The Golden Proportion 48-52
Gnomonic Expan~iona nd the Creation of Spirals
Workbook 6: Gnomonic spirals 67-70
The Squaring of the Circle
Workbook 7: Squaring the circle 7479
Mediation : Geometry becomes Music
Workbook 8: Geometry and Music 83-85
Anthropos I
The Genesis of Cosmic Volumes
Workbook 9: The Platonic Solids 98-1 02
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