Missing Illustration - 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
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Query: 9. The Archaic Cosmology of Cities: Building the Kosmos on Earth
Missing Illustration
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Public buildings and the most prestigious private houses were aligned by the art of geomancy, feng shui, whose tool was a compass surrounded by circles containing zodiacal and calendrical information (Illustration 9.3)
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9.3 Chinese capitals and their gates (Wheatley,[1] The Four Quarters, 1971: [page number unknown]).
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- ↑ Paul Wheatley, The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City (Edinburgh: 1971).
