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Platonist Creation according to Plutarch's Moralia 720c. God creates the Cosmos use a Compass with one arm on the precise Centre of the Cosmos and the other on the Periphery. The compass points to the fact that there is a relationship between the two

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Science, and particularly geometry and astronomy, was linked directly to the divine for most medieval scholars. The compass in this 13th century manuscript is a symbol of God's act of Creation. God has created the universe after geometric and harmonic principles, to seek these principles was therefore to seek and worship God.

  • Title: God as Architect/Builder/Geometer/Craftsman
  • From: The Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee
  • Style: Gothic
  • Date: mid-13th C.
  • Location: France
  • Codex Vindobonensis 2554 (French, ca. 1250), in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

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Famously used as the first color illustration to Benoit B. Mandelbrot's The Fractal Geometry of Nature...

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current17:15, 7 March 2013Thumbnail for version as of 17:15, 7 March 2013371 × 517 (143 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 01:34, 6 January 2006 -- please upload other scan as as separate file under different name
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01:34, 6 January 2006Thumbnail for version as of 01:34, 6 January 2006371 × 517 (143 KB)Leinad-Z~commonswiki (talk | contribs)God has created the universe after geometric and harmonic principles. To seek these principles was therefore to seek and worship God. *Title: God as Architect/Builder/Geometer/Craftsman *From: The Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee *Style: Gothic *Date: mid

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