Back in 2012 Gary Osborn was investigating things like Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens XX1 and the Masonic Apron. One idea he ran past me was to put the Michell et al Moon-Earth creates Pi on-the-square.
It’s easily done (as 22/7 Pi). You take graph paper 14 boxes up and 11 across as your framework. Now a diagonal, corner to corner, is already Pi (as the angle 51.84-85 or tan 14/11 but Michell et al used 5.5 up one side to start and another 7 up the other to finish - but I don’t know if John ever actually used graph paper, though.
Now, the trick Michell found was to place the Moon on top of the Earth. Since Earth (canonical) diameter/720 = 11 and Moon/720 = 3, then there’s your 11 across and and your 14 up (11 + 3): you just put the Moon on top of Earth. [garyosborn.moonfruit.com]
But, looking at Atalanta Fugiens XX1, Gary also wondered about the Maier pyramid and his interest in the Earth axis slope of 23.5 degrees. Did it all, somehow fit together – and did Maier’s Man and Woman in a circle represent Mercury? [www.gesamtkunstwerk.eu]
Back to the Drawing Board – and still Gary: on your piece of 14 X 11 graph paper (with an 11 at the bottom) go one in along the bottom at each side and connect diagonally to (opposing) 4 in from each side across the top. The relevant angle of the Maier-alike pyramid will be 23.2 degrees (pretty much) as tan 6/14 to echo 23.5 somewhat? The Maier Man-and-Woman in a circle in a square will be square sides of 4.2 (and a 22/7 circle of 13.2 circumference). The top of the Maier-alike pyramid will be 10.5 from the base.
So what? Well, a real Mercury here would be 4.211 (4.2) and a real Venus would be 10.45 (10.5). So the geometry is throwing up some quite close approximations. Further, a diagrammatic Earth diameter and circle will stand at 2.619 to a Mercury diameter and circle (4.2/11) Evocative of Phi squared, 2.618? And – ?killer? – Moon + Mercury = 5184 on the diagram scaled up - 2160 +3024.
Are we looking at a drawingboard based “lesson”? If so, where's Mars?
It’s easily done (as 22/7 Pi). You take graph paper 14 boxes up and 11 across as your framework. Now a diagonal, corner to corner, is already Pi (as the angle 51.84-85 or tan 14/11 but Michell et al used 5.5 up one side to start and another 7 up the other to finish - but I don’t know if John ever actually used graph paper, though.
Now, the trick Michell found was to place the Moon on top of the Earth. Since Earth (canonical) diameter/720 = 11 and Moon/720 = 3, then there’s your 11 across and and your 14 up (11 + 3): you just put the Moon on top of Earth. [garyosborn.moonfruit.com]
But, looking at Atalanta Fugiens XX1, Gary also wondered about the Maier pyramid and his interest in the Earth axis slope of 23.5 degrees. Did it all, somehow fit together – and did Maier’s Man and Woman in a circle represent Mercury? [www.gesamtkunstwerk.eu]
Back to the Drawing Board – and still Gary: on your piece of 14 X 11 graph paper (with an 11 at the bottom) go one in along the bottom at each side and connect diagonally to (opposing) 4 in from each side across the top. The relevant angle of the Maier-alike pyramid will be 23.2 degrees (pretty much) as tan 6/14 to echo 23.5 somewhat? The Maier Man-and-Woman in a circle in a square will be square sides of 4.2 (and a 22/7 circle of 13.2 circumference). The top of the Maier-alike pyramid will be 10.5 from the base.
So what? Well, a real Mercury here would be 4.211 (4.2) and a real Venus would be 10.45 (10.5). So the geometry is throwing up some quite close approximations. Further, a diagrammatic Earth diameter and circle will stand at 2.619 to a Mercury diameter and circle (4.2/11) Evocative of Phi squared, 2.618? And – ?killer? – Moon + Mercury = 5184 on the diagram scaled up - 2160 +3024.
Are we looking at a drawingboard based “lesson”? If so, where's Mars?