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Euclid

Euclid is considered the father of geometry for assembling almost all of the world's knowledge of flat-plane and 3D geometry in his seminal work "Elements". Elements covered topics in plane and solid geometry, including spheres, cones and other three-dimensional figures. It formed the basis of geometry for over 2000 years. Euclid likely studied mathematics in Athens under Plato's students before writing Elements and over a dozen other works on topics like music, mechanics and optics. His work, along with Pythagoras, formed the foundations of sacred geometry used in Greek architecture, art and science.

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Euclid

Euclid is considered the father of geometry for assembling almost all of the world's knowledge of flat-plane and 3D geometry in his seminal work "Elements". Elements covered topics in plane and solid geometry, including spheres, cones and other three-dimensional figures. It formed the basis of geometry for over 2000 years. Euclid likely studied mathematics in Athens under Plato's students before writing Elements and over a dozen other works on topics like music, mechanics and optics. His work, along with Pythagoras, formed the foundations of sacred geometry used in Greek architecture, art and science.

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foundations of architecture, astronomy,

mechanics, and optics. Euclid “arranged”


geometry; and Pythagoras explained the
inherent sacredness of numbers.

Euclidean geometry needs only a compass


and straightedge. In the 13 books of
Elements, it gives most of the geometric
knowledge of Euclid’s time, containing all
we know about plane geometry (Flat
surface geometry) and much that we know
about spheres, cones, and other 3-d
figures.

In  [624-546 BC] Thales of Miletus


sometimes referred to as the “father of
deductive reasoning’ was one of the first to
Euclid: THE FATHER OF
bring the science of geometry from Egypt to
GEOMETRY (Sacred Geometry)
Greece three centuries before Euclid. Plato
[427-347 BC] founded the Academy in 387
Euclid [325-2650], known as the father of
BC that flourished until 529 AD. Plato’s
geometry, is responsible for assembling
book Phaedo supported Pythagoras by
almost all the world’s knowledge of flat-
attempting to prove that numbers and
plane (Flat surface geometry) and 3D
figures are the perfect noumenal forms
geometry in one book. His work, together
behind manifested reality. After some time
with the work of Pythagoras, forms the
around [417-369 BC] Theaetetus of Athens
basis of all sacred geometry. It is only in the
created the solid geometry of the five
last few centuries that any significant
Platonic solids and his work fascinated
geometry has been added to what Euclid
Renaissance writers with proportion and
laid down 2,300 years ago. Euclid probably
sacred geometry. Eudoxus of Cnidus [408-
first studied mathematics in Athens with
355 BC] devised methods for determining
some of Plato’s students. He also wrote
the area of circles and the volumes of
close to a dozen of other books on topics,
pyramids and cones. His works were about
such as music, mechanics and optics, but
proportion and harmony and become key
only four actually survive. Optics,  contains
factors in Greek architecture and sacred
some of the earliest studies of perspective.
geometry. Eudoxus work inspired Book V of
The ancient Greeks using geometry have
Euclid’s Elements. This volume is of
built the calculations of harmony that go to
particular importance to the study of sacred
make up sacred-geometry and it’s step-by-
geometry.
step logic is the basis of modern scientific
reasoning. The Greeks created ideals of
classical beauty, stunning architecture and
the logical scientific approach to solving
problems. These ideals and knowledge of
form and proportion are the foundation of
sacred geometry as we know it today. At
the heart of Western science, Greek
geometers helped to build strong Gil Derick N. Velasquez

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