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How the World Is Made

• Thames & Hudson • ISBN 9780500290378

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How the World Is Made

• Thames & Hudson • ISBN-13 9780500290378

ISBN-10 Not provided • 2012

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ISBN 9780500290378 • Completeness 45

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In How the World is Made , his final book, John Michell sums up and lays out for anyone to follow, his many astonishing (re)discoveries of the way numbers, geometry and patterns work and how they underlie our whole world and the best of the well-ordered societies and states that have flourished since ancient times. Step by step from first principles the reader is taken through each of the numbers from 1 to 12, the ge

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Mar 01, 2012
Pages: 288

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Contributor: step from first principles the reader is taken through each of the numbers from 1 to 12Contributor: the geometrical figures and regu

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Category: Architectural TheoryCategory: Esoteric StudiesCategory: History Of MathematicsCategory: Philosophy Of ScienceCategory: Sacred GeometryCategory: Symbolism In Art

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