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Sacred geometry |
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Sacred geometry is the geometry used in the planning and construction of religious structures such as churches, temples, mosques, religious monuments, altars, tabernacles; as well as for sacred spaces such as temenoi, sacred groves, village greens and holy wells, and the creation of religious art. In sacred geometry, symbolic and sacred meanings are ascribed to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions. According to Paul Calter:As worldview and cosmologyThe belief that God created the universe according to a geometric plan has ancient origins. Plutarch attributed the belief to Plato, writing Plato said God geometrizes continually (Convivialium disputationum, liber 8,2). In modern times the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss adapted this quote, saying God arithmetizes.At least as late as Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), a belief in the geometric underpinnings of the cosmos persisted among scientists.Natural formsAccording to Stephen Skinner, the study of sacred geometry has its roots in the st...view more
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