Secret Geometry of Washington D.C.

by Nicholas Mann

Overview

Incorporated into the United States capital city is a system of number and geometric proportion, just as in temples and cities of many of the great civilizations of the past. Washington D.C. remains a powerhouse for the USA, its citizens and the World helped by the underpinning strengths of its hidden design.In 1791, as the immense new Federal City took shape upon the landscape, highly charged power points and energetic lines of power were worked into the ground plan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995547896
Publisher:	Green Magic
Publication date:	11/27/2019
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents

1. The L’Enfant Plan and Traditional Geometry 1

2. The Creation of the Federal City 25

3. The Power of Place in the Place of Power 38

4. Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant 51

5. The Geometric Order of the Federal City 65

6. The Golden Section 87

7. The Triangle and Other Avenues 108

8. Washington after L’Enfant 133

9. The Washington Monument 148

10. ‘...That harmony and combination of the different parts with the whole’ 155

11. Avenues to the Stars 169

12. References 193