Interchapter Query: Chapter 11 - 8. From the Temple Corporation to the Family Oikos (Household)
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Interchapter Query: Chapter 11
In Chapter 11: There is possibly 1 mention of Chapter 8, below.
Note: This is one of the known mentions of Chapter 8 (see this general query) that are (or were) in other chapters (as they were written in earlier edits). Some of these mentions were edited or were cut completely from other chapters but still provide a hint of what was intended to be added to Chapter 8, with your help. Mentions are indicated with code formatting (gray background with pink-color font on regular text, and normal blue-color font with gray background on links). This is an example of a mention of Chapter 8.
Mention of Chapter 8 in Chapter 11
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Chapter 9, on religion,Interchapter QueryThe chapter numbers are probably off, and this seems to be about Chapter 8, on temples. and also Chapter 10, cities:][Observatory Editor’s Note: the chapter numbers are probably off, and this seems to be about Chapter 8, on temples.]
As Rodney Needham pointed out in his introduction to the 1970 reprint of Arthur M. Hocart’s Kings and Councillors[1] (1970: p. xxx–xxxi), the key was not that temples and cities were raised to a mystical plane. Rather, they were related to a mathematically “clean” and perfectly proportioned cosmos, module, or template. A temple was not only the abode of the god, but also a replica of the kosmos, “the world.” However, it was an idealized image of this world, one which was shaped and ordered in conformity with the macrocosm.
No a priori scheme will work, for there are too many possibilities of variation and idiosyncrasy. (See Needham/Hocart[2] 1970: p. xxxix.)Vague TextContext appears to be lacking here. Can you help us make this paragraph less vague?
But some keys are in nature: the five symmetrical geometric (“Platonic”) solids. The Dorian mode is a symmetrical (palindromic) musical scale, and there are mathematical proportions among the tones.StubThese paragraphs are a stub. Can you help us expand them?
Consider also the mathematics of right-angled (“Pythagorean”) triangles, known since the neolithic.StubThese paragraphs are a stub. Can you help us expand them?
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- ↑ Rodney Needham (ed.), introduction to Arthur M. Hocart, Kings and Councillors (Chicago: 1970 [1936]), p. xxx–xxxi.
- ↑ Rodney Needham (ed.), introduction to Arthur M. Hocart, Kings and Councillors (Chicago: 1970 [1936]), p. xxxix.
