March 11, 1143
The Freemason’s sacred Tables.
Jack had just finished leveling out the 6’ diameter sand pit when the rest of the Freemasons entered the masons lodge at Kingsbury Cathedral. Jack, an apprentice to master mason Tom Builder, hurried to align the 6 sacred tables around the sand pit. So that each of the tables were 60° from of the center of the sand pit. Jack could read and write and always thought the names of the sacred tables were strange. Since he had never seen them in a book. The names of the scared tables were sphero-cylindric, cylindro-spheric, cono-cylindric, cylindro-conic, plano-cylindric and Gothic. As the Freemasons each took a table and turned over the top of the circular table top over Tom Builder began to draw in the sand pit with his compass explaining each of the sacred geometric drawings inscribed on the back of each table tops. As always Tom Builder ended the meetings by say “That’s the way we draw our arches”.
A modern exercise in descriptive geometry, first done by German painter Albrecht Dürer. 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528)[1]
http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/duruwm/index.htmlpage 113 daisy-wheel
page 104 circle – ellipse - ordinates
René Descartes (1596–1650)
algebraic (or “analytic”) geometry
Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (9 May 1746[1] – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry and he was a freemason.
The problem of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface was solved by Gaspard Monge, who invented descriptive geometry
The theoretical basis for descriptive geometry is provided by planar geometric projections. Gaspard Monge is usually considered the "father of descriptive geometry". He first developed his techniques to solve geometric problems in 1765 while working as a draftsman for military fortifications, and later published his findings.[2]
Orthographic projection
The Orthographic projection is derived from the principles of descriptive geometry and is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional object. It is a parallel projection (the lines of projection are parallel both in reality and in the projection plane). It is the projection type of choice for working drawings.
Freemasons
Time Magazine LABOR: Masons
Monday, May. 18, 1931
The Word. For more than 500 years The Word, the secret of the order, has been un-violated. However, observers suspect that The Word is no more than trade mathematics, as expressed in the title chosen by the 18th Century French Mathematician Gaspard Monge, written in the Freemason tattler (newspaper), who wrote about "Descriptive Geometry, or the Art & Science of Masonic Symbolism."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741695,00.html#ixzz11PAikeiq
In the United States of America, where Claude Crozet, one of Monge's pupils, introduced the study of descriptive geometry in 1816.
The Edinburgh encyclopedia,
http://www.archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo05brew#page/404/mode/2upBritish system of projection
Peter Nicholson 1832 -- Freemason
Perspective is only a branch of the doctrine of solids; and all that this branch teaches, is only the methods for finding the sections of pyramids and cones, the eye being considered as the vertex, the original object the base of the pyramid or cone, and the picture to be drawn a section thereof; the term is there-fore of too general application, perspective being only a branch of stereography.
The eleventh and twelfth books of the Elements of Euclid belongs to stereography: these may be looked upon as the theory of the doctrine of solids, and to them we shall refer our readers for the original properties; but for their practical applications to useful practical applications in life, it is rather singular that so little has been done in this respect. The present article is entirely new. It is of the greatest importance in the various mechanical departments of architecture. The geometrical principles in masonry, carpentry, joinery, and the other useful branches of the building art, are entirely dependent upon it: in short, the cutting of individual pieces of timber in the art of carpentry, and the formation of separate stones in masonry, is only the application of stereography to practice.
History of Descriptive Geometry in England
http://gilbert.aq.upm.es/sedhc/biblioteca_digital/Congresos/CIHC1/CIHC1_121.pdfAfter all this research on Descriptive Geometry I’ve come to the conclusion that it really depends on who’s telling the story of “History of Descriptive Geometry” and what country their located in.
Is it Sacred Geometry or just a drawing showing two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional object?
Tom Builder –-- 1143 Freemason
Albrecht Dürer – 1515 Painter -- Mathematician
Gaspard Monge 1765 --- Freemason -- Mathematician
Peter Nicholson 1832 --– Freemason -- Mathematician
Looks like Gaspard Monge and Peter Nicholson couldn’t keep “The Word” secret”.
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