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PRAISE FOR WOODEN BOOKS “Music to the eye”— The New York Times “Fascinating”— Financial Times “Excellent” New Scientist “Genuinely mind-expanding”— Fortean Times “Engaging and accessible” — Seattle Times : “Beautiful’— London Review of Books =a “Rich and artful’— The Lancet Dr RO ear TCT es US. $22.00 ato ISBN: 978- Dae taa a CAN. $29.00 Bagks y Coed Hye re Ces: o Od ] MATHEMATICS ro 780 78130) Reed ee ee a eta ae LeEscaneado con CamScannerEscaneado con CamScannerEDITOR'S PREFACE ‘The volume you ae holding and always useful jewel es fare creature ches of ok, once secret, ‘ected and scientific, provincial and foreign, ancient and modern, Six books from the Wooden Books series have been combined to Produce Quahviom, plus 32 new pages foe good meatue. Geometry | snd musicare each covered 2s two books, hence thesix. We have red ] fo minimize repetition due to overlap i the original books bur a few ; ‘instances remain, Alo, since cis is a eraneatantic edition, we have ‘opted fora Canadian mixture of Eaglish and American spelling and Punctuation. IF this uses some readers, we apologize ‘A volume ofthis scope involves bringing together many people, Particular thanks to Sally Pucil, Richard Henry, Adam Tedow, John Michell, John Neal, Paul Marchant, Robin Heath, Dave Wade, Stephan René, Khaled Azzam, Malcolm Sewatt,Plly Napper, Geof? Stray, Moff Betts, Scote Olsen, Richard Heath, Matt Tweed, Mark Mills, Robert Temple, Stephen Parsons, Nathan Williams, and Tracey ‘Robinson for their help and contributions. ‘Thanks to the‘addtional Wooden Books series editors, George Gibson of Walker & Bloomsbury in New York, ad Daud Sutton in Cairo. Thanks finally co Keith Critchlow for the foreword, and t0 ‘he authors themselves, Miranda Lundy, Daud Suton, my grandfather ‘Anthony Ashton, and Jason Martineau in Berkeley. 7 John Marines fact i et mer toa tit Sri re OoEscaneado con CamScannerEscaneado con CamScannerEscaneado con CamScannerSACRED NUMBER the secret qualities of quantities Miranda Lundy eit additional material by Adam Tetlow & Richard HenryEscaneado con CamScannerEscaneado con CamScannerI DUALITY opposites There are two sides to every coin, and he other side s where the Dy ives. To isthe otherworily shadow, oppose, polarized, and lid. ei thre, other, tht ot dis, and essential sa basi for ‘ompatison, the method by which or minds know things. There are ‘oun nae forthe divine pi. "To the Pythagoreans, wo was the firs sexed number, even and Female. To develo thei appreciation of twones, they contemplated prof pure opposes, sch as liitd-unlmited,odd-evea, one-man. Fighelefs male-female reting moving, and saight-cuved. We ight alo think ofthe in-and-out of or breathing, postive and negative tage in etrornagacton, and eal ad imaginary marber “The dyad appear in marie asthe ratiotwo fo ne, a we experience asiniar tone an octave higher or lowe, at ewie or half the pitch, In gromeryitisa line, ro poins, or wo circle. Linguisily when peaking ofboh pars of meting working 3s ‘one we use the b-prefix, ain cyl rbiary, bur when the divisive quality oftwo invoked, words begin wih the prefix di thus discord diversion, The deincion beween self and ne-selfisone ofthe fist and at we generally make Moder philosophers, when che consider ewones, can gt lle Fart than the ancients All experince a lef and a right, front and back, and up and down through two eyes and ewo ear Mem and women alike live under 2 Sun and 1 Moon, only occasionally ememberng how mirsculouly balanced they sem, the sae sz in | the sky, on shining by dy, the other by nighTHREE is a crowd Male in somecalurs, male in oer the, ikea te, bridges heaven and arth, The Tid relates opposites their comixture, solution, ot mediator, The synched or return to unity after the division of 90 i isa tradtonally dhe Gir odd number. The thi eg of stool gives ir blanc, the hid stand ofa braid rakes a plat (knot can only be ted in three-dimensional spcs). Stories, ry tales, ad spirtal radtons shound with portentous hres, ageing pst, presen, and farce with the knower, knowing and the known, Asbith, bie and death, the ead appears throughout ure, principle ad form. The rangle ery’ sos sple and serutral devi, theft sable polygon, and defines the Gist surface Ti muse the etios 3:2 and 31 define the incervals ofthe ih and. ‘tsoctave, the most heauefal harmonies other than the octave lf andthe key toall ancient tunings. Thee heft trangule numb. "The eka pi formed by two overlapping ciel (ypste fp lef) Inmelil nvoks rang An equilateral angen cele defines the octaeasitscreumirdeis tice the diameter os inci bw fh, and the are ofthe ing here chre mes tat ofthe incile. Below ‘enter we se Archimedes [7-212] four dicovery—the alums ‘ofthe cone sper, and drum are inthe ras one to two to hse.Escaneado con CamScanner» PHIVE life itself The quality of five is magical. Children instinctively draw fivefold stars, ad we all sense ts pay, energetic quality ve marries male and fmale—astwo and hre in some ulus of thre and ewo in oters—and sos the univer numberof eprodction sn biologic a, A Fonacc number, ako the number of water, ‘very muoksule of which ta corner ofa pentagon. Water ise a smi qui crystal lace of exing asada, hse being one ofthe Five Patni sles ely, nnd fom ight) fve ingles meeting a each pot. As such, water shows tq as being that of Fo, dynamin, andi Dry things are cher dead or they ae seating water. ives ae found in apples, owers, hands, and fet. Our nearest planet, Veous, goddess of love and beauy, draws lovely Gvefold atte about Earth as she whil around the Sun (paste fh ‘Our mow univers sale the pentatonic, made of ive tone he ‘ack keys ow a plano, grouped ato two and eee. Pare harmonic fcervals involving the uber fv, lik the major and minor ees 42nd 6: ar found n J Intonation, in lsc Indian toning Fives the diagonal of thre-by-foar rectangle. However, like threesand fers, ves disdain the plane, wing for the hind dimension tofietoetber to proce che fifth denenALL THINGS SIXY the hex The Hosa, kets gracefal herald the snowilke, brings perfection, seructur, and order: The marriage by mukiplication of wo and thre, ven and odd, six sabo the numberof creation, with 3 cosmos made in sx days common then in sxiptre. “The whole numbers that divide other mambers ae known as thelr fut, and most numbers have Fctors that sam oles than themselves, ad soar known as deft Si, beauufaly the sum and product ofthe first three numbers, and is fictrs ae alo jus one, two, and thre, these summing to sx nd 2 making tthe Fist pepe mune The rads ofa ctcle canbe swang through its circumference in vat six denial ares to inscribe a regular hexagon, and sx circles perfectly ft around one. Afr the triangle and square the hexagon is the final regular polygon tha can sie perfecly with ental copies of iselfo filth plane. “The thee dimensions make fr sx direction: forward, backward, Ii right, up and dow, and thew ate embodied in the six faces of ‘be ches corners an etaedron, andthe six edges ofa teahedeo, Six occurs widely in crystallin ruceures such snowflakes, quart, an grape, and hexagons of carbon atoms fem the basis of organic emisey, Js add wate. The well-known 3-4-5 Pythagorcan triangle hasan area and a semiperimete fix. Six i alo the pentatonic octave in mi Tnsecs creep and crawl on sx eg, and the honey bee arcanges ts ry, waxy secretions moan isincive hexagonal honeycombTHE HEPTAD seven sisters ‘Seven isthe Virgin, standing quite alone and having ite todo with any of the otber simple mbes, In music a ale ofseven tones he ‘whit keys on a piano) emerges at macrally ass sterfive-tone cle, an theraealso seven rated cascal modes. Like all nmbers, seven ‘mbodies the number preceeding i; spt i functions she sii center of sx a5 sx directions emanate from pot in space, and sb working circles surrounda seventh restfl one in plane ‘The Moon's phases are widely counted in four sevens, with a iysterious moonles night or two completing serve cycle ‘Ourejes perceive three primary colours ofight—red, green and blue—which combine to proce four more—yellow, yam magenta and white. According tothe ancient Indian, a vertical rainbow of seven subleenergy centers, or chakra, runs yp our Bodis. Talay we understand these a the seven endocrine glands, The seven planets of antiquity, arranged inorder oftheir apparent speed (pps, upper cet), rake amazing connections with metals (eypst, upper If) and the days of the week (ppt, wpper eight) Moon2)-slver-Monday. Mercury-¥-quicksilver-Wednesay, Vens- S-copper-Friday, Sun-O-gold-Sunday, Mars-d-iron-Tuesday, Jupiter-}-tin-Thursday and Stuen-b-lead- Saturday (ets page 9) ‘There are seven fileze symmetries, seven groups of crystal serutues ad seven calm the tradtonal labyrinth al hown opsEscaneado con CamScannerE l THE ENNEAD thee threes Nie isthe ead of triads, the fst od square mumber, and with it tomneching extraordinary eect, forthe frst nine numbers can be ‘rage na magi square where every ne ofthre in any direction Inthe same otal cere, This ancient mamberpatrerm was fst speed four millennia ago onthe shel ofa divine ace emerging rom ‘he ver Loin China, “Three times tee lsonemore than wo times two times two, and the ‘ato beeen ninand ight defines the crcl whole tonein mas; the 98sec from which the sale emerges asthe deen between the two ‘no sple harmonies in the octave, the fifth 32, andthe fourth 43. “Thora nine replat shre dimensional shapes: the five Pltonic soles the for stellar Kepler Point polyheda ee Book "Nine appsas in our bodies a the cros-secion ofthe tentacle lke cil, which move hing around our surfaces andthe bunds of ‘microtubesin centile, een or cll division (ho), [Nine the eesti aumber of order, and many ancien raion speak oF nine worlds, spheres, o levels oF elt. Cats know, They ave nin ives, desta he nines whenever publ, and seem to spend mos oftheir ime on cloud ans, wherever thatTEN fingers and thumbs The fc tha humans have eight finger plas two thumbs must have worked inex favours ay ules a various ste Ins, he Indians, the Berbers che Hittites andthe Minaneal adopted cas the bse fe theircounting systems, Today weall we base ten. Ten isthe cid of five and ew, and unsoprisingly the word te derives fom he Ino European don, meaning vo hand. “Tenis pucclaly formed ay he sum ofthe fst four numbers 50+ s213e4=104 a fit of profound significance tothe Pythagorean who inode in the gare of he Terakys (aed, eye et) ain called i Univers, Heaven, and Beery. As wel a being the fourth angular number, en slo the third rerahedral numb wr, poster), a fac cha ends res importance ata imuleancour tbulding number of bo o- and threc-dimensional angle form. ‘Tents formed from two pentagons and en he-nvokng pentagons ste psfcly around decagon, and ova, appropeaely athe key othe tepreduction off, hasten eps foreach urn of ts double heli, so Appears in cou-seton at tenfold rete peep bf ‘There arecenSephrh in the Jewish Kabbala’s Tre of Life owe, pate lef) and tenfold symaetry was often used in Gothic archi tec (poi igh. Plato believed cht the decad contained all numbers, and fr mot of wstoday feds, sr we can expres uit about ty number we care to think about in erm ofa ten sinple symboleEscaneado con CamScannerTHE TWELVE heaven and earth “Twelve ithe ist bandit mano, ith itor oe, ew, three oun, anus, suming to more daniel, Tele poineson a cele afin to forma four triangles, three squares, of two hexagons (iow as wpe inh soi pate cet). As the produto thea four, weve Sebo meine eocaed wr sHeeerial eve Thelee enjoys the third dimension an is the numberof edges of both he cobe nthe octahedron, The fosbedron hac reve wert, ansdits dual the dodecahedron (iterally wel fier’ has weve fces cof regular penagons. Twelve spheres it perfectly around one to define ‘cabocthedron. We wll meet these polyhedra later. Tnasever-note scale noe incre ta ptternoffive tones and two Jalones. In modern raning the ve tones ae divided to create x scle ‘of eveencalhalones, th wel-eempered rele tone le weall teat everyday, Caron, the next mos simple Pythagorean eangle, fier the three-ourfive, has des five, twelve, and hirteen units wel is often found arranged around ental oar ero; there a weve months, ewele signs ofthe zodiac, and many twelve-eibe tions. In ancient China, Beye, nd Greece, cites were often divided lt twelve districts, and there are wally twelve fll moons inayat ‘The material universe today undersond as being made of three generations of four Fundamental pass, eel nll. sidhbadhd [bbR |e) G88)COVENS AND SCORES into higher mumbers Thirteen, the coven, beloved of the ancene Mays, and cenral tothe seructte ofa deck of er, ia Fibomacei number expresed in the ‘mocions of Venus for whom thirteen year is eight of our own and ext you think ic ucky, remember the teacher of weve disciples is the thirteen member ofthe gang, the thiteenh tone inthe chromate scale competes the octave. Fourteen artic seven, and fifteen as three ives, cach have ungue quae but gin to demomerte how now-prize higher nurses tend tobe perceived in terms af tht actors. ‘Shvtoen 224312, the quae of four (self square Seventeen keeps many secrets, Both Japanese hak and Greck Iexametr consis ofsevetsen lables, and lame myst often refer to eas particularly beau. Tighteen, as twice ine and thrice six, and nineteen, a prime nub, bu hve strog connection tothe Moon sepa) “Twenty score the sum of niger snd toe, ase in many clears, ‘anger counting nthe example shen pi was widespread in ‘medieval Furopesn markers. In French eighty sill arent (Fur ‘brent andthe ancient May sed a sophittd base 20 sytem (pt Brin shun bo). “Theres noc enough spice here cover every numb in detail, but Interesting facts of higher numbers appear inthe glosary of numbers ste back ofthe bak (pe 94-348) euoeeeeTHE QUADRIVIUM the qualities of quanta Another word fora whole number sa guano and dhe Qualevium i “sctially an edoction in the behaviour of simple quans. The purest seady of quana dal in factors, ratios, triangular, guar and cubic rumbers, prin and peefect numbers, and the way numbers apes n sequence ike dhe Fibonacci and Lacas sequences. We will cst may ofthese eas ewe go along, bu dividing the unity of sce and me sls throws light on tothe stare of quanta in these media For instance, opposite we ee some ofthe limits paced by space ‘on number, Allowing ony perfect polygons there are thee regula ide pte op five reglae sald (op rig, eight semi-reguae| rs (er Kf) an hirtcen semi-regular solids (ener). These numbers, 3, 5,8 and 33 are an incetesting bunch, and we will mee ‘hem again in this book “The numbers of music nfo simple ratios between periods ot equencies (ve, opps 3: onson, 2 (he octave, 32 (he Ge and. (be foue). The fequency of the ih ders from tar ofthe fourths (he vale ofthe tne which gives rs to the cal) “The way number unflls in space and vime requires that we uy the manifest cosmos, and the eadtionalsbjee of say here the Solar sytem. However, we coulda add the beaifl simplicity of the periodic ble, che quantum bchavir ofthe subatomie reals, of the orgunisaton of ehe natural phenomena wit drt clement [Numerical fics of space ante are universal. They may orm ‘ot play the same tunes inthe nats intelligent galaxy, bt ehey wil age cha fs sound lovey, and recognize ive simple sol _> SSEscaneado con CamScannerTIME AND SPACE cosmology and manifest number ooking ie erect Gad beavers aout Eath The ar reed dealin Boor Vib we vu noduc afew here. There, for tsane, twelve fll ons ina solar yar,burhe wef illseleven daysshot of teed which means thar elsemoon yar, ike the IMac elds, des dow agaiat ‘he slr yar, coming round again fe 3 Yeats thice evens ‘Other Sun-Moon marriage number area nd 9:4 repeat sfter 8 years, and fill moon dates repetafier 19 yeas. Stonehenge {plays hia 19 ones ser horetoe, Tw fll moons ac very $9 days and Stonehenge record thi in outer cele of 30 eset det ghee rdA Mgt 9 dey p= mon Weald ewe Gy puters uted Earth every cghe years allowing us to draw a amaring diagram (psec), a thre ight yes there arealmest exactly 9 fll moons, nine elevens the number ‘ames or efletions of Alla in Iam. Jopiter draws a Beasifl even pattern around Earth (pst) ‘The nuinbers of many longer cycles, sch a the Great Yea, or preceisen ofthe quinones, areal ich in secret qualities. Fach great, Inonth sich the Age of Pies, or Aguas last, 160 yar, ab the Alameter of the Moon inl, Twelve great month give dhe ancient ‘Western value of 24920 yeas forthe whale ele The ancene Maya were super stargazes. Thee calendar syn= ‘ronized noe just the Sa and Moon, bt alo Venus and Mars. They worked out has or «3 33) fll moons ocar exactly every 2992 ee eet tecad acy acre sireEscaneado con CamScannerANCIENT ASIA ‘martpulating in tens tn China wren dela system with base characters as bee ed for moc han 3000 yar pe 98). Another particuley beau ‘Sue of wring numbers the ua for sng od notation, complete Shih all ero wed in Ching Japan, ad Kean some form since lee see elu). Late, the fous Chiese abacus replaced rod hme cousin boards The speed fe operators pascal inthe Fr at legenary, and iain widespread use oy. Tis hasan ancient names tradition. Number is prominent in many ofits cries, and Indian comoogy wes huge numbers rial teeny by tho of modem phys. Inllan numerals crginate with ‘he rab sytem of namerls with 4s characters fr ch nambers 160 ‘92000 Tn te the spculsions of Yalan mathematicians required a ‘ew system combining the st nine nmber names with ower often, Rapid and deyant alcustion techniques and the description of very large number auld in some tonshing calculations. "The zero alo emergel, co denote an empty decal power without confi or pe, deed is rom Enda tha we received ia the ‘Anite modern decimal place vale sytem. 1 7 ET Ube=teTEscaneado con CamScannerEscaneado con CamScannerMYTH, GAME, & RHYME rmuribers toe grow up with Some of out cet experiences with number occur by way of games, ‘hymc, store, and cultoral myths, many of which are reasure roves of hidden numerical rebsioshis, ‘Ancient forms of language were regularly sumber-based, so in poetry we find eriplets (hee lines of vere, quatrains (Fess of four Tins pentameter ines wih five stressed lable) hexamers (ines swith sb stresed sable) and hk ere line poem of seventeen ‘lables ive seven, then ives compre ithe 2s page 18) ‘Game, ike myths and store, can store information The sum of puck of playing cards, counting jack, queen and King as 1,12, and 13:15 ya, whch with the joker prodices 36, the number of day in a year The eighteens and nineteens of che Chinese game of Go echo the yee ofthe Sun and the Moon (page 4). These ancient games| reflect eternal principle, suggesting lager cosmic games, aso with numbe athe cet. "Most games ate dependent upon number fe ther seracure an rues. Imagine a game of poker played by people who couldse count higher than eee! Helow ate ewo examples of knighour fom ches, both of | which produce magic quae when numbered in sequence _—— =Escaneado con CamScannerZERO, nothing left to say Zeros beenleft ull because ina sens itis ot actualy 2 number al, jsta mark representing the absence of number, Ics pethaps or this reason, and the hortor many theologians had of, thst nothing | took sich long time to emerge as something all, and in quite afew sensbe cultures ieneve did ‘A symbol fr ero hasbeen Snvented independently atleast three ‘ime. The Babylonansin gone started using the shape of wo wedges pressed into day ro ace aan empty plc’ marker in thee sexagesinal ‘numerals, ‘no mumberin this alum’. On the othe side ofthe wold, std nary athoasand yer later, che Mayans adopted a seashell symbol forthe same function, “The circu form that ‘othing’ assumed under the Indians reflected the indentation leftin snd when a pebble sed for counting is removed. ‘Thus our moder 2, iberted from the Indians, began asthe visible trace of vmething no longer there ike one, zero probes the borderline between absence and presence Inearly Indian mathemaccal treaties ei efered to as Sims, meaning “yo calling to mind che abyss, the ukimat unknowable, the pregnant ground oll being Teds pethaps appropriate chat our zero takes the form ofa circle, ‘self a symbol of ene, and that our one takes che form of shor line between two points. As acknowledged in gematia, ech number already contains the sed of es sucesoe within it, andthe symbols for ‘zeroand one strangely combine to crate the Golden Symbol , a ting thovight with which to end this book.Escaneado con CamScannerEscaneado con CamScannerINTRODUCTION suced Geometry darth mfltingofcumbern sce, I dis fram mandate gory porn the see hat owe conse tn pes te rept shaving symbolic ale and meng “Th ike god mine hwy and pace of emery Ge she eon ofthe oa Ar we hl se, he a oarey rom the ge pol, inthe lineout the pln, thro othe hid Simeon and beyond, ciently returning the pin 3, ; ead i “Those pag Bo0x I of Cua, cove he cents of t90- lesional gromery—sheunflig of number on ft are “Thethre discal rome ory is then ld in Boor. Ths tele eeepc to meophyse Like the eens of ser abject, must an : aspect frelon righ indiptble shadow of Reality and 2 cron ythin ol Number, Min Geom, and he dy of persia Herens ar hefour ges ibr Arvo ncn word dealing wih quae, or whe mambers. These snple unreal language se ea tedayasthey have ateayren andy be nd nalknown cine and ales whoo dagrecment. Ine, one woul expect ny eanblineligenethe-dinensnl ng ny whence ives toknow about thomin mich he ame ay wth ar precede, Jistabove the enrance 1 Bats Academy sa si Let none ieorat of geometry eter hr” Soles dome seach Plaats in rw hantrysin. Mn, chare KlEscaneado con CamScannerEscaneado con CamScannera ONE, TWO, & THREE playing with circles Get tle, compas, something to draw with and something t drwy fon. Draw a horizontal line across he page. Open the comps and ace the pnt onthe ine, Draw acl ep ‘Where de cre hs cut the ine, place the compass post and draw auother cule Jeaving the compas at the same opening asbefore. When fone cide is drawa over anoer lke this so that they pas throwgh cach other’ center, then an important almond shape, thesia pis Ierly sistas formed, Ieisone ofthe fist chings ha cele ‘anda, Chri soften depicted inside a esc, Two equlatera ranges Jaye been defined pie ce). ‘A thindcrle can be added to the ine as before, normally on he ‘others of he forming cele, this sip act defining alli points of aperiecchexagon (ber epost, Aleernatiey, the cir ice ca be aided asshown blo wo prodce an elegant tangle form Cres thus fords produce perfec triangles and hexagonseu SIX AROUND ONE cor twelve or even eighteen “The six pinto the hexagon give rs tothe erik pattern shown teow. Alteratively i can Be drawn by ‘walking’ circle atound | Welf—something most children have done t school, whether under ‘nsraction or jo playing wich a compat, ‘We ae now seeking the lower diagram oppose, ad nccd the centers the six ote cirles, One ways to extend the ower, igh rawing the six Giles shown dased inthe top digran, opie us he sixcentrs, Otherwise we can dra stright lines shown nthe lower gram. Both way work ‘Wecan now se tar sx das it around one. We can push gles, coins or tennisllsogether tose, yeti isextrocdinry eal. ‘S| arourd ene fsa theme which the Old Testament ofthe Bible oper on, ‘vith the sx day f work andthe veventh day of rex. There i ndend somedhing very xy about ciesou TWELVE AROUND ONE how to draw a dodecagon ‘sone proce sx, six produces twelve, Hete th arms oF sic: pointed sea extend from the Hower to Interiect the oor ras ofthe six oles Beauly, this forms a perfct overall divs of pace nto tele pre (a opps). The twelve-sded polygon called a Aodecagon, which means Incl ‘twelve sided’ “The dodecagon is also made from six squares and six equlatral triangles ited around ahexagoa—can you se them all oppotie In dditoo, che shape divider ino its actors, thee, four ands, 38 our triangles, thee squats and two hexagons (er rovers. ‘Shown below isthe three-dimensional version ofthe same story. A. ‘ull nara fs twelve others round itso thatthe all ouch the cater ad four neighbours, You we this arrangement in apples ad oranges tn every marke tall. The shape madeicalled the cubocahedron and is dovely relied to the tetrahedron and cube we aw on page 67. Most xystals grow along these lines. “Twelve isthe number which te around one in ehree dimensions in the same way tht sx fis around one i two dimensions. The New “eeament isa ory ofa teacher surrounded by eweve disciples. Bt) G)Escaneado con CamScannerCIRCLING THE SQUARE the marriage of heaven and earth “The ctl she shape traiionallyasigned to dhe Heaven, and the square wo che arth, When chese wo shapes are unified by being made sulin aces or perimeter wespeak of Squaring the il meaning tha erven and Earth oe Spirit and Mater, are symbolically combined ‘married, Fivefld Man exis berween sixfold Heaven and fourfold Earth and Leonardo da Vine’ image (posts aso shows how a mans spam equals his heighe, ha his measure equals even of i et and ther impor tos. -Aswesaw ener (ae the Earth nd the Moon square the cre, forif the Moon (diameter 3) sdrawa down tthe Earth ismeer 1) then hesenly cre through he Moon tel, lw et ha ais 7, and so ercumference 4, hesameas he perimeter ofthe square around the Each, Ths works because m, which relites the cicumferenc of ciede tots diameter practically. ls Leonardo's image the Moon ‘would i above the man’ head ‘Also shown (fl If and gh) sa simple construction fra square sing ruler and compass. Octagon 308 allow:THE CANON 3,7 and 11 “The squaring of thc a coded na door Gerum Church Gold, Seen psi) Ith and Nore myths abound with as of 23 watos =). The Sumtaks year fora prt epee on ‘hehorizon Jens sand ireuecedaged 3, Ramadan oocusevery 12 moons and takes 3) year to mow found he ena Seeween 3 and 47 an kis anol steht the Ea ie Iden in ced ae atthe dk fa oly bead Vingin Mays or the ‘Boddha' isthe diagonal ofa rectangle 3 wide and 7 high. Importanly, “Ws the anclentEgypan vale fo bal ofr, 20 al ras ht ganar The Sandreckonedingram opis iqu way of Alvin» etangl de ino cna acon (fr Malan Swe} ‘Acie andwparec ako be married by having the si ae nda dou rainbows, with bows 4.5 and 25° precy draws this do Fo Marinas marriage of Heaven a Earth inde! 18 Scam comers Abs and iw: The Sendo aga, ‘Sin boing crest cn puter bent da to 4, Sd, 7 and eal pares nih mas ton exondy idee Teint abe price phono le une gh "mend aps ig maa Sarees