Sacred Geometry : Philosophy and Practice

by Lawlor, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780500810309
• ISBN10: 0500810303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-06-17
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

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. Art and Imagination : These large-format, gloriously-illustrated paperbacks cover Eastern and Western religion and philosophy, including myth and magic, alchemy and astrology. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge, visionary thinking and accessible writing to each intriguing subject.

Table of Contents

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