English Pages []. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate some of the ways in which diagrammatic structures may have informed the layo. Deftly translated by Claude Paul Desmarais, Rethinking the School of Chartres provides a narrative that is critical, pas. Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a magnificent Gothic cathedral in the imaginary Frenc.
John Trevelyan Parfitt, a refrigeration engineer, is made redundant and goes to an Employment Exchange to find work. Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. In this beautifully illustrated magisterial chronicle, Steph.
Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Graeco-Roman World. Her temple, the Artemision, w. The still air within the soaring arches of Chartres Cathedral is charged with the secrets of the Cosmosβand the stone, if it could speak, would perhaps reveal them. But the massive columns of Chartres stand mute to the passing of eons, and it has remained for Louis Charpentier βjournalist, traveler, author, and publisherβto penetrate the mysteries of the Cathedral and the men who gave it life so many centuries ago.
Printed in the U. Foreword Our knowledge of the past, ancient and mediaeval, is growing. Our views on a number of archaeological and historical problems are expanding.
Now M. Charpentier opens a fresh vista of possibilities. He says in effect that Chartres and other cathedrals, like the great monuments of Egypt and Greece, were the manifestation of a secret communicated to mankind by occult or mystical means. This, he claims, required the services of a man equipped to receive a Dedication in occult language; a man competent to translate the message into numbers and a mastercraftsman who knew what he was about and could express such numbers or relationships in curves, verticals and volumes.
