- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson (26 Oct 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0500515107
- ISBN-13: 978-0500515105
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 20.8 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 264,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`This is a delightful book: clear, witty, beautiful and illuminating. It is well worth buying for yourself - and for your friends' --Rupert Sheldrake, The Spectator
`A beautifully illustrated, fascinating book' --Prediction Magazine
'This book is utterly gorgeous ... A thing to be cherished, a work of art ... The text is Michell's finest prose - cool, succinct, rational'
--Fortean Times
'A real treasure! Full of beautiful illustrations and poems... it will delight anyone associated with sacred cosmology or sacred landscape' --Gatekeeper Magazine
'Astonishingly beautiful... a ravishing book'
--Country Life
'John Michell has stamped this book with the freshness and originality that are his hallmark... a source of inspiration for seekers in the arts, mathematics and the Mysteries'
--Temenos Academy Review
`A beautifully illustrated, fascinating book' --Prediction Magazine
'This book is utterly gorgeous ... A thing to be cherished, a work of art ... The text is Michell's finest prose - cool, succinct, rational'
--Fortean Times
'A real treasure! Full of beautiful illustrations and poems... it will delight anyone associated with sacred cosmology or sacred landscape' --Gatekeeper Magazine
'Astonishingly beautiful... a ravishing book'
--Country Life
'John Michell has stamped this book with the freshness and originality that are his hallmark... a source of inspiration for seekers in the arts, mathematics and the Mysteries'
--Temenos Academy Review
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Galileo described the universe as a large book written in the language of mathematics, which can only be read by those with knowledge of its characters triangles, circles and other geometrical figures. In How the World Is Made John Michell explains how ancient peoples who grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies. His more than 300 colour illustrations reveal the secret code within these geometrical figures and how they express the spiritual meanings in the key numbers of 1 through 12. He identifies the various regular shapes and shows their constructions; their natural symbolism; their meetings, matings and ways of breeding; and their functions within the universal order. In the process, Michell helps us see the world in a new light. Disparate shapes and their corresponding numbers are woven together, resolving themselves into an all-inclusive world image that pattern in the heavens, as Socrates called it, which anyone can find and establish within themselves.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a beautiful book. It is the final published work of an author whose research in the field of ancient science, and the metaphysical and spiritual nature of the universe has had a profound influence on modern thinking. In it he explores the language of mathematics through the numbers 1 to 12 (the significance of the duodecimal system is explained along with other systems), illustrating the geometrical figures and patterns they generate with his own delightful watercolours. It is a book that can be enjoyed on many levels from quite simply visually inspiring to extremely mentally challenging. Whatever, the underlying order in the universe shines through. I bought a copy for my elderly father, himself a mathematician and designer of note, who was showing signs of mental deterioration and had become too confused to read, write or converse coherently. He was fascinated by the illustrations, poring over them daily. One day he picked up a pen and drew some wobbly geometrical shapes. A few days later he put on his reading glasses and started reading the text. Just a few weeks on, he can read, write and converse quite normally. I'm sure this book acted as a catalyst.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a beautiful book, full of interesting things you would never even think of. If you think you are not interested in numbers, then think again. The Maths teacher at our school loved this! It is a book you can dip in to or read from start to finish. I learn something different every time I pick it up. The illustrations are excellent and it is written in an easy to understand way. Food for thought.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is proof of Keats' phrase: 'Beauty is truth; truth beauty.' It speaks to the intuition as well as the intellect, and invites contemplation as well as reading. A final, supreme gift from a great man.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Somewhat disappointed.
Although I can see that this book would be really eye-opening
for anyone unfamiliar with the field of sacred geometry, I'd
let someone borrow it rather than recommend... Read more
for anyone unfamiliar with the field of sacred geometry, I'd
let someone borrow it rather than recommend... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Frank Bell
Sacred Geometry
Fascinating, enthralling and staggering account of how the world came to be, the 'evidence' of a god and a painstaking explanation of sacred numbers and patterns.
Published on 13 Mar 2010 by Martello
Beautiful Book
If you like John's work , buy it.
It is a treasure.
Get it now in hardback before it's only obtainable in softback.
It is a treasure.
Get it now in hardback before it's only obtainable in softback.
Published on 20 Dec 2009 by audiophile
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