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100 | _aLawlor, Robert | ||
245 | _aSacred geometry Philosophy and practice with 202 illustrations and diagrams, 56 in two colours | ||
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_aLondon _bThames and Hudson _c2021 |
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505 | _aContents 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 | ||
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