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by: Michael S. Schneider See Larger Image List Price: $18.95 Our Price: $12.89 You Save: $6.06 (32%) Prices subject to change. Used Price: $6.50 Third Party New Price: $10.40 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 516.001 EAN: 9780060926717 ISBN: 0060926716 Label: HarperPerennial Manufacturer: HarperPerennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 351 Publication Date: November 08, 1995 Publisher: HarperPerennial Release Date: September 29, 1995 Sales Rank: 11125 Studio: HarperPerennial Related Items: Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice (Art and Imagination) Math for Mystics: From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna's Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry Sacred Geometry (Wooden Books) Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books) Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code see more Editorial Review: 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Universal appeal CONSTRUCTING THE UNIVERSE has been on the bookshelf for over a year, and it's really only now that I'm beginning to fully appreciate and process Schneider's masterpiece and its implications - or what could be called an Almanac of Discovery. Although not wanting to write a review until I had finished absorbing it completely, ultimately this work will never date as it's the kind of visual and text based product that provides a continual unfolding of yet deeper and deeper levels of understanding. ... Read More Rating: - Thank Heavens for Michael Schneider! This book is a very rich resource for all artists and designers. He moves beyond number as quantity and shows the rich array of the patterns, structures, symbolism, and natural examples of each number's unique qualities. It's number explained for visual thinkers. Oh how I wish I had been given this approach in elementary and high school. I knew numbers were intriguing, but not as calculation for business and engineering. FINALLY someone who understands number can show us through our eyes and ... Read More Rating: - A profound book "It is written on the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, on the depths of the emerald seas and on every grain of sand in the vast desert that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream of an inward and invisible reality." - Sufi saying. This book is a beautiful re-introduction to the "Sacred Geometry", the study of the simple mathematical patterns that dominate the universe. At the same time this practice both argues for a creator and also one who is unlike ... Read More Rating: - Be ready to think! Artfully done with many interesting side notes. Easy to read, the book raises many deep questions. Well worth the price! Rating: - 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 ... 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