File:God the Geometer.jpg
Summary
Creation of the world. Thumbnail of medieval manuscript, XIII century.
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.
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