How the world is made
Subtitle: the story of creation according to sacred geometry
By: John Michell, with Allan Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Allan, 1968-
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rochester, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781594773242
Subjects: Cosmology; Geometry -- Miscellanea
Description: "Understanding the role of sacred geometry in cosmology and human affairs"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The geometer's creation; title: How the world began; title: And why and why worry?; title: The geometer's creator; title: Creative geometry : introducing the ratios; title: Genesis and the great geometer; title: The number of the universe; title: The number 5040; title: Key to the world plan; title: Earth, moon and the circle squared; title: The circle, the square, and the meaning of Pi; title: P in practice; title: P in the pyramid; title: P equals 3? : an antiquarian fantasy; title: The Ii patterns; title: Cosmological revelations in crop circles; title: The revelation at crooked soley; title: Initiation; title: And the vision of heavenly order; title: An initiate's vision : St. John and the heavenly Jerusalem; title: Heaven on earth : the pattern of the sanctuary; title: The numbers of the Holy City and their meanings; title: 3168, the number of our Lord Jesus Christ; title: 1080, the lunar number, the solar 666 and their sum, 1746; title: 864, the foundation number; title: The physical creation; title: The dodecad; title: A summary of numbers one to twelve; title: The one and only; title: Symbol of the universe; title: The geometry of two; title: Duality and the world of paradox; title: The geometry of three; title: The vesica pisces and material creation; title: The vesica pisces and the marriage made in heaven; title: The net with 153 fishes, a geometer's parable; title: The triangles the fill up space; title: Pythagorean triangles; title: The second pythagorean triangle 5-12-13; title: Four and the square; title: Reason, stability, order; title: The rational square and the root-two proportion; title: Doubling the area of a square : an exercise in recollection; title: Six and the hexagon; title: The perfect number; title: Eight and the octagon; title: For peace and justice; title: The majestic twelve; title: The number of universal order and harmony; title: Twelve tribes and the revelation of the heavenly order; title: The creation of life; title: Five and ten; title: Numbers of life and growth; title: Life and the pentagon; title: Humanity and the pentagram; title: Pentagonal dances; title: Sex and the pentagram : meeting, mating, and breeding; title: Pentagonal marriages with other shapes; title: Five and seven; title: The world soul; title: The holy seven; title: Symbol of the world soul; title: Seven and the mysteries; title: Seven, nine, and the septennary number; title: Twelve and seven : the supreme numerical marriage; title: Geometry and love; title: Approaching the climax; title: Atlantis; title: A geometer's nightmare; title: Plato's pentagonal allegory; title: Atlantis : the historical record; title: Atlantis : its foundation and growth; title: Squaring the circle, Atlantis style; title: Atlantis, the pentagonal edifice; title: Atlantis, the basic geometry; title: Atlantis and the golden section; title: The meaning of Atlantis.