Sacred Geometry

by Miranda Lundy

Overview

Is there a secret visual language all around us? What’s so special about the shape of the Great Pyramid? Why is there something so sexy about circles? How many ways can you tile the plane? Lavishly illustrated by the author, this enchanting small introduction to one of the oldest and most widely-used ancient traditions on Earth will forever change the way you look at a triangle, arch, window, fabric repeat, ceramic pattern, graphic design, painting, spiral or flower.
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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781952178108
Publisher:	Wooden Books
Publication date:	03/15/2022
Series:	Wooden Books North America Editions
Pages:	64
Sales rank:	446,460
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Miranda Lundy is an artist and designer occasionally living in Penzance in Cornwall. After finishing an MA in traditional arts at the Royal College of Art in London, she became a road protester and an active campaigner for animal rights. After a few brushes with the law she started walking long distances and is now trekking across South America, researching a book on pyramids.

Read an Excerpt

Sacred Geometry charts the unfolding of number in space and differs from mundane geometry in the sense that its moves, concepts and products are regarded as having symbolic value and meaning. Thus, like a good melody, the study and practice of geometry can facilitate the evolution of the soul. As we shall see, the basic journey is from the single point, into the line, out to the plane, through to the third dimension and beyond, eventually returning to the point again, watching what happens on the way.
These pages cover the elements of two-dimensional geometry— the unfolding of number on a flat surface. The three-dimensional geometrical story is told in another book in this series. The material is this book has been used for a very long time indeed as one introduction to metaphysics. Like the elements of its sister subject, music, it is an aspect of revelation, a bright indisputable shadow of Reality and a creation myth in itself.
Number, Music, Geometry and the study of patterns in the Heavens are the four great Liberal Arts of the ancient world dealing with quanta, or whole numbers. These simple universal languages are as relevant today as they have always been, and may be found in all known sciences and cultures without disagreement. Just above the entrance to Plato's Academy was a sign: “Let none ignorant of geometry enter here.” So let's do some research.

Table of Contents

Point, Line and Plane 2

Sphere, Tetrahedron and Cube 4

One, Two and Three 6

Six around One 8

Twelve around One 10

The Five Elements 12

Circling the Square 14

The Canon 16

Pyramid Pie 18

Halves and Thirds 20

The Shapes of Sounds 22

The Golden Section 24

Some Special Spirals 26

The Pentagon 28

The Heptagon 30

The Enneagon 32

Rabatmenr 34

Simple Tilings 36

Further Tihngs 38

The Smallest Part 40

Islamic Designs 42

A Church window 44

Trefoils and Quatrefoils 46

Stone Circles and Churches 48

Delightful Arches 50

A Celtic Spiral 52

Pentagonal possibilities 54

The Seventeen Symmetries 56