The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . ANUMLBICAL ANALYSIS OF GOTHIC TEAC&RjY 84 VI THE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY 83 rnjMEEfflTCN IN C3EOTPJEJmjEjmO AECHITECmjKAUY. AbUND AECADB IN THE-SOUTHTEANJSPT OPTHECHAPEI. OF-UNCOIN CATHEOEAL/ and by 4 in the quatrefoils im-mediately above. Seven is proverbially the perfectnumber. It is of a quantity suf-ficiently complex to stimulate theeye to resolve it, and yet so simplethat it can be so analyzed at aglance; as a center with two equalsides, it is possessed of symmetry,and as the sum of an odd and evennumber (3 and 4), it has
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . ANUMLBICAL ANALYSIS OF GOTHIC TEAC&RjY 84 VI THE ARITHMETIC OF BEAUTY 83 rnjMEEfflTCN IN C3EOTPJEJmjEjmO AECHITECmjKAUY. AbUND AECADB IN THE-SOUTHTEANJSPT OPTHECHAPEI. OF-UNCOIN CATHEOEAL/ and by 4 in the quatrefoils im-mediately above. Seven is proverbially the perfectnumber. It is of a quantity suf-ficiently complex to stimulate theeye to resolve it, and yet so simplethat it can be so analyzed at aglance; as a center with two equalsides, it is possessed of symmetry,and as the sum of an odd and evennumber (3 and 4), it has vitalityand variety. All these properties awork of architecture can variouslyreveal (Illustration 78). Fifteen,also, is a number of great perfec-tion. It is possible to arrange the first 9 numbers in the form of a magicsquare so that the sum of each line, read across or up or down, will be 15. Thus:
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