The Pythagorean Triangle

Stirling traces one geometric scheme, a system of proportions he calls the canon, through Egyptian temples, Greek statuary, Gothic cathedrals and the Kabbalah. Dense and eccentric, and still one of the founding texts of the whole subject.

William Stirling

Seven essays by an architect who read buildings as geometry. Bragdon works through symmetry, polarity and what he calls latent geometry, then applies it to the human body and to music.

Claude Bragdon

A painter and a mathematician measure shells, leaves, wasp nests and Renaissance facades looking for the same proportional rules. Hundreds of diagrams, and the clearest case anyone made for geometry as nature's grammar.

Samuel Colman and C. Arthur Coan

Cook presents B. W. Betts's attempt to draw the growth of consciousness as a series of geometric figures. Strange, rigorous and beautifully diagrammed, with a chapter on the fourth dimension.

Louisa S. Cook