Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice

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.

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