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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice »

Authors: Robert Lawlor
ISBN-13: 9780500810309, ISBN-10: 0500810303
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date Published: June 1982
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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

	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