How the world is made : the story of creation according to sacred geometry
Häftad bok. London : Thames & Hudson. 2012. 272 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Språk: Engelska.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780500290378
- Titel
- How the world is made : the story of creation according to sacred geometry
- Författare
- Michell, John - Brown, Allan
- Förlag
- London : Thames & Hudson
- Utgivningsår
- 2012
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
The geometer's creation -- How the world began -- And why, and why worry? -- The geometer's creator -- Creative geometry : introducing the ratios -- Genesis and the great geometer -- The number of the universe -- The number 5040 -- Key to the world plan -- Earth, moon and the circle squared -- The circle, the square -- And the meaning of Pi -- [Pi] in practice -- [Pi] in the pyramid -- [Pi] equals 3? : an antiquarian fantasy -- The [Pi] patterns -- Cosmological revelations in crop circles -- The revelation at crooked soley -- Initiation -- And the vision of heavenly order -- An initiate's vision : St. John and the heavenly Jerusalem -- Heaven on earth : the pattern of the sanctuary -- The numbers of the Holy City and their meanings -- 3168, the number of our Lord Jesus Christ -- 1080, the lunar number, the solar 666 and their sum, 1746 -- 864, the foundation number -- The physical creation -- The dodecad -- A summary of numbers one to twelve -- The one and only -- Symbol of the universe -- The geometry of two -- Duality and the world of paradox -- The geometry of three -- The vesica piscis and material creation -- The vesica piscis and the marriage made in heaven -- The net with 153 fishes, a geometer's parable -- The triangles the fill up space -- Pythagorean triangles -- The second pythagorean triangle 5-12-13 -- Four and the square -- Reason, stability, order -- The rational square and the root-2 proportion -- Doubling the area of a square : an exercise in recollection -- Six and the hexagon -- The perfect number -- Eight and the octagon -- For peace and justice -- The majestic twelve -- The number of universal order and harmony -- Twelve tribes and the revelation of the heavenly order -- The creation of life -- Five and ten -- Numbers of life and growth -- Life and the pentagon -- Five and the golden section -- Humanity and the pentagram -- Pentagonal dances -- Sex and the pentagram : meeting, mating, and breeding -- Pentagonal marriages with other shapes -- Five and seven -- The world soul -- The holy seven -- Symbol of the world soul -- Seven and the mysteries -- Seven, nine, and the septenary number -- Twelve and seven : the supreme numerical marriage -- Geometry and love -- Approaching the climax -- Atlantis -- A geometer's nightmare -- Plato's pentagonal allegory -- Atlantis : the historical record -- Atlantis : its foundation and growth -- Squaring the circle, Atlantis style -- Atlantis, the pentagonal edifice -- Atlantis, the basic geometry -- Atlantis and the golden section -- The meaning of Atlantis.
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