C.S.N. Wijnhof - Merkwaardigheden met betrekking tot de expressiemogelijkheid van getallen ook in de oudheid [Deel A, B & C]

C.S.N. Wijnhof - Merkwaardigheden met betrekking tot de expressiemogelijkheid van getallen ook in de oudheid [Deel A, B & C] - Emmen - [Self-published] - 1995/2003 [= ca 2010] - Reprint - 3 parts - [518]; 162; 202 pp - Hardcovers - 21,5 x 28 cm.

Condition: Excellent set - COMPLETE.

The result of years of research into the symbolic meaning and function of numbers in the Bible, the Hebrew Torah, Greek mythology, Sacred Geometry, folktales, archaeological finds, etc. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions and drawings. With bibliography, index on number and general index.

Three-part, exceptionally thorough standard work, written and published under a pseudonym by C. Engels, with the help of Prof. ir. M. Gout and P.H. Klop. Hardback Edition (a private print of the 2003 CDROM - which was the last revised version). Part A. (Een on-mógelijk verhaal); Part B. Het wonder van de zuivere kubiek; Part C. Het andere gezicht van de wiskunde. COMPLETE TRILOGY (but each volume also stands alone).

¶ Dealing with, among others, Plato's Timaios, 'the number 23', the 'unfortunate number' 13, Egyptian myths, Osiris, the Tetragrammaton YHWH, Labyrinths (in the cathedral of Chartres), the number 1001 (from the Fairytales of a Thousand and one Night), the Dome of the Rock in the Temple Square in Jerusalem, the Phaistos Disc, the 'Grundsteinspruch' and on p.271-304 a long chapter devoted to the number structure in the divine comedy (La Divina Commedia) by Dante Alighieri.

And that was only part A. The second part (B) is entirely devoted to Freemasonry and the role of Platonic forms in it (particularly the cube and the pentagram) and part C (based on the ideas of Dr. G.P. Wijnmalen and Friedrich Weinreb) discusses, among other things, triangles, Tao, the hermetic or divine tableau, figures in dreams and figures of numbers.