A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Harper Paperbacks

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A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Harper Paperbacks Be ready to think!
Artfully done with many interesting side notes. Easy to read, the book raises many deep questions. Well worth the price!
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Harper Paperbacks Abundant resource for insights & illustrations about sacred geometry
Colleague Michael Schneider (who I had the pleasure of interviewing on community radio/TV a few years ago) wrote this outstanding book that has wonderful little illustrations and photographs showing how geometry and number remind us universal archetypes every where we turn in nature, art and architecture. For over a decade I've recommended this book as a perfect complement to my Sacred Geometry Design Sourcebook which you can also find here on Amazon or on my website at www.GeometryCode.com. If you want a great place to begin exploring sacred geometry (even though he doesn't call it that :-), A Beginner's Guide... and SGDS make a great pair of references.
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Harper Paperbacks Sacred Geometry - the Primer
First I bought two copies. Sent one to my 90 year old mother who read it cover to cover. Then gave away the other as an emergency gift. Then bought two more. Now I have to buy more because I read my own copy and have three people to whom I would like to give the remaining copy. Let's see, that is 2 + 2 = 4 + 2 or 3 = 6 or 7. Now I know what those numbers "are". This book is precious. It allows one to see the magic and the mystery in common objects and relationships around us. Nicely written. A lot of fun. The whole book is worth the price just for the fantastic quotes in the margins, let alone the chapters. I love this book. I am glad to know more about the radiant essence of my apples, bowls, desks, steering wheel, hands - and everything around me. Thank you Michael Schneider.
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Harper Paperbacks presents both practical and mystical aspects of numbers as they relate to nature
A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe shows the mathematical underpinnings of nature by explaining how nature makes use of the numbers 1 - 10 and also 12 and 13. For example number six is used by nature in the construction of many things including walls of cells as the six sided hexagon is a very stable geometric object. There is some focus on mystical aspects of math but not too much so that there ends up being a lot of practical knowledge to be found here. The Fibonacci sequence is presented along with the use it is put to by nature. There is a presentation of the golden mean also. I highly recommend this book to those who have had interest in math drilled out of them by the drudgery of unfocused arithmetic and algebra lessons. This book is a peak into the fascinating world of mathematics and should whet your appetite for more. One book to consider after reading this book is "Fascinating Fibonacci's" as it contains more detailed information on the material found in chapter 5 of this book.
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Harper Paperbacks This book changed my life
An amazing combination of mathematics, science, history, religion. As the story of geometry unfolds so unfolds many other stories of our universe. Hint: invest in a compass, do the suggested activities and examples, have fun
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science by Harper Paperbacks Product Description
The Universe May Be a Mystery, But It's No Secret Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive guide to the patterns that recur through the universe and underlie human affairs. A Beginner's Guide to Constructing, the Universe shows you: Why cans, pizza, and manhole covers are round. Why one and two weren't considered numbers by the ancient Greeks. Why squares show up so often in goddess art and board games. What property makes the spiral the most widespread shape in nature, from embryos and hair curls to hurricanes and galaxies. How the human body shares the design of a bean plant and the solar system. How a snowflake is like Stonehenge, and a beehive like a calendar. How our ten fingers hold the secrets of both a lobster and a cathedral. And much more.