Ideal Metrology in Nature, Art, Religion and History

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 belie...