Patterns of Eternity: Sacred Geometry and the Starcut Diagram - Softcover

Stewart, Malcolm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863157122 ISBN 13: 9780863157127

Publisher: Floris Books, 2009

Synopsis

The 'starcut diagram' is at first glance a simple way of dividing the area of a square. After extensive research, however, Malcolm Stewart found that it has extraordinary mathematical properties, suggesting that it may be no less than the source of the number system used when ancient humanity first built cities.

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About the Author

Malcolm Stewart has had a varied career: priest, singer-songwriter, publisher's editor and book jacket designer, cartoonist, BBC and ITV producer, traveller, UN project coordinator, NGO relief-aid and refugee organiser, freelance artist and stained glass designer, lecturer and writer. He is 70, has five children and lives with his wife in Surrey.

Review

'I remain in awe of this book. Patterns of Eternity is probably the single most important addition to the body of sacred geometry to re-emerge in a decade. Malcolm Stewart's expose of this deceptively simple device will have scholars of art, architecture, mathematics and geometry entranced for centuries to come. 'More importantly, perhaps, it will stimulate thinking and geometrical playfulness among those who design our public buildings, gardens and futures,...

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Edition details

• Publisher: Floris Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0863157122
• ISBN 13: 9780863157127
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208