Sacred geometry
Subtitle: philosophy and practice
By: Robert Lawlor.
Contributors: Lindisfarne Association.
Series: Art and imagination; Art and imagination
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Proportion.; Geometry -- Philosophy.
Description: 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 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.
Notes: "This book originated in a series of seminars held in New York City for the Lindisfarne Association, Crestone, Colorado"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography: p. 110.