Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code"The Da Vinci Code "has awakened the public to the powerful and very ancient idea that religious truths and mathematical principles are intimately intertwined. "Sacred Geometry" offers an accessible way of understanding how that connection is revealed in nature and the arts. Over the centuries, temple builders have relied on magic numbers to shape sacred spaces, astronomers have used geometry to calculate holy seasons, and philosophers have observed the harmony of the universe in the numerical properties of music. By showing how the discoveries of mathematics are manifested over and over again in biology and physics, and how they have inspired the greatest works of art, this illuminating study reveals the universal principles that link us to the infinite. |
Contents
Contents | 6 |
THE HIDDEN ORDER | 15 |
Pure geometry | 40 |
THE GEOMETRY OF NATURE | 61 |
Geometry in astronomy and cosmology | 74 |
THE GEOMETRY OF THE 888 | 89 |
Sacred geometry in architecture | 116 |
Sacred geometry in art | 140 |
Conclusion | 152 |
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alignments angle Archimedean solids architects architecture arithmetic artists astronomical Avebury basic building calculate Cathedral century Chartres circumference construction crop circles crystals cube curve decimal Dee's degrees dimensions divided draw Earth Earthworks Egyptians elements ellipse equilateral triangle Euclid exactly example faces feet feng shui figures fractal fractions Glastonbury Golden Mean growth harmony height helix Herodotus hypotenuse Iron Age irrational numbers John Dee Kepler labyrinth lambda length ley lines logarithmic spiral lunar mathematician mathematics megalithic sites megalithic yard meridian meters modern Moon musical nature Old Sarum orbits original Pacioli painting palms Parthenon patterns pentagon perspective planets Platonic solids Pole Star polygons precise prime numbers proportion pyramids Pythagoras Pythagorean radius ratio rectangle Renaissance Rennes-le-Château right-angled triangle Ring royal cubit sacred geometry seked shape showing side simple snowflake square stone circles Stonehenge structure symbol temple triangular units of measurement vertices vesica piscis whole numbers