The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth

Good example of mathematics and ancient architecture of temples and symbolism of how man saw the world around him. Not an easy read if you are not mathematical enough to understand.

Five stars for his writing. Numerology in itself sounds a little funny to sceptics. I believe the precessional numbers have significence, but the gematria I'm not so sure about (converting words to numbers). He could have explained to dummies how this is done. For example does the word 'the' convert to a number, and if so, how? I furthered the numerology of the bible with my own unique theory. If you want to hear about it reply to my comment. Should have a book coming out one day. PS - I loved the bit about a man that embedded himself in a tree to get the power of the sun with the power of the underworld (roots) together. That was brilliant.

You have to really work to get through this book, not because it is poorly written--quite the opposite. But if you are curious about the knowledge systems of the ancient world and how they may have encoded their mysterious wisdom into the number systems that we use today--sounds wierd--there is a lot here. Michell was a true visionary and a serious scholar. No lightweight new age stuff here, though many of his ideas have become tenets of the New Age world view. The core of Michell's writing is utterly fascinating.

This book presents some very interesting ideas. I really enjoyed reading it, but here is the reason for only 2 stars: NO BIBLIOGRAPHY OR REFERENCES! The author makes astonishing claims about ancient mathematics and philosophy, but if you want to do any follow-up research on your own, then you’re out of luck. For example, this book talks about the Pythagoreans investigating the irrationality of pi, but I’m a geometry teacher and it’s my understanding that the Pythagoreans were actually investigating irrational square roots, such as the diagonal of a unit square, and the irrationality of pi wasn’t proved until after the development of calculus much later in history. Naturally I wanted to check the author’s sources, but the lack of references prevented me from doing so. Also, this book describes a geometric construction, based on the vesica pisces, that supposedly produces an approximation of “squaring the circle,” but when I tried it myself and took careful measurements (multiple times), the construction produced a square and a circle with perimeters that were never close enough to show a satisfactory approximation of the equal-perimeters goal.

A recap for me on former books I have read. But still had some new things I didn't know before. Enjoyed the book

This book is fabulous! Filled with all sorts of unexpected tidbits of wisdom that I never expected to find here. This is like digging for treasure in a pirate's back yard…

Author is very intelligent. Information is unavailable elsewhere.

After reading the book, I am glad that I did purchase this book. It helps to open a persons mind.

Boaring, waste of energy and time , not worth the trouble, i do hope others will not fall in the same trap

Excellent as usual from this author!

good product, excellent customer service, thank you!

Quick delivery. Book as seller described.Very disappointed with contents of book. Hard to understand worthless information.

A very interesting read, lots of things to reread. Glad I bought it!