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Summary

Science, and particularly geometry and astronomy, was linked directly to the divine for most medieval scholars. The compass in this 13th century manuscript is a symbol of God's act of Creation. God has created the universe after geometric and harmonic principles, to seek these principles was therefore to seek and worship God.

Title: God as Architect/Builder/Geometer/Craftsman
From: The Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee
Style: Gothic
Date: mid-13th C.
Location: France
Codex Vindobonensis 2554 (French, ca. 1250), in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.

Modified from: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/JesusGreek.htm

Famously used as the first color illustration to Benoit B. Mandelbrot's The Fractal Geometry of Nature...

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:15, 7 March 2013	371 × 517 (143 KB)	AnonMoos	Reverted to version as of 01:34, 6 January 2006 -- please upload other scan as as separate file under different name
	15:58, 7 March 2013	753 × 1,024 (533 KB)	Zetelakiapu	better
	01:34, 6 January 2006	371 × 517 (143 KB)	Leinad-Z~commonswiki	God has created the universe after geometric and harmonic principles. To seek these principles was therefore to seek and worship God. Title: God as Architect/Builder/Geometer/Craftsman From: The Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee Style: Gothic Date: mid