Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History

by Frank Channing Haddock

Overview

From the PREFACE.

The following pages are due to a long yet incomplete study of the symbolic use of numerals in ancient literature and monumental work. The builders of old Egyptian and Asiatic civilizations attached great importance to numbers as an exact language in which physical and spiritual ideals could be expressed and preserved. The number seven was generally recognized as the numeric symbol of rest, satisfaction and sufficiency, and ten as the symbol of completeness. It is our belief that these are fragments of an ancient and comprehensive system of numerical symbolism.

In the absence of ancient writings or tablets defining the symbolism of numbers we must depend upon special use to discover their significance. As figures show time on the clock dial, steam pressure on the steam gauge, and commercial values in account books, so the ancient symbolic import of numbers is determined by their use. Where measures are thus employed a symbolic interpretation is important.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663510747
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/01/2020
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Herbert George Wood (2 September 1879 – 9 March 1963), best known as H. G. Wood, was a British theologian and academic. Wood argued for the historicity of Jesus and was an opponent of the Christ myth theory. He was the author of Did Christ Really Live? (1938). He debated mythicist J. M. RobertsWood wrote that "All Christ-myth theorists start from a view of the gospels as discredited witnesses — a view which no scientific historian can accept and which rests on rationalist prejudice and sheer ignorance."