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Author Lawlor, Robert.

Title Sacred geometry : philosophy and practice / Robert Lawlor ; [diagrams by Melvyn Bernstein].

Imprint London : Thames and Hudson, ©1982.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  513.01 L427s 1982    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Art and imagination
Art and imagination.
Note "Originated in a series of seminars held in New York City for the Lindisfarne Association, Crestone, Colorado"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 110).
Contents The practice of geometry -- Sacred geometry: metaphor of universal order -- The primal act: the division of unity : The square cut by its diagonal; [root] 2 ; The [root] 3 and the Vesica Piscis ; The [root] 5 -- Alternation -- Proportion and the golden section : The golden proportion ; Gnomonic expansion and the creation of spirals : Gnomonic spirals -- The squaring of the circle -- Mediation: geometry becomes music : Geometry and music ; Anthropos ; The genesis of cosmic volumes : The Platonic solids.
Subject Geometry -- Philosophy.
Proportion.
Golden section.
Geometry -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00940874
Golden section. (OCoLC)fst00944571
Proportion. (OCoLC)fst01079236
Added Author Lindisfarne Association.
ISBN 0500810303
9780500810309

 
    
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