CONCEPT · PRINCIPLE
Geometría
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Claims
5 entries — each with its source and locator«A DAM, our firft Parent, created after the Image of God, the great Architect of the Universe , must have had the Liberal Sciences, particularly Geometry, written on» — el origen que la masonería se adjudica a sí misma: Adán, creado a imagen de Dios, «the great Architect of the Universe», debió tener las ciencias liberales —y particularmente la geometría— escritas en su corazón.
«So that as the Mechanical Arts gave Occafion to the Learned toy reduce the Elements of Geometry into Method, this noble Science thus reduc'd , is the Foundation of all thof» — Su lugar en el orden del saber: reducida a método a partir de las artes mecánicas, la geometría queda como fundamento de todas ellas.
«No doubt Adam tauglit his Sons Geometry, and the ufe of it, in the feveral Arts and Cr» — la transmisión, dada por segura en el mismo tono: «No doubt Adam taught his Sons Geometry» y su uso en las artes.
«Upon which he erected his two large Pillars, (tho' fome afcribe them to Seth) the one of Stone, and the other of Brick, whereon were engraven the Liberal Sciences» — Las dos columnas —una de piedra y otra de ladrillo, que algunos adjudican a Set— con las ciencias liberales grabadas en ellas.
«onfifteth on the Foundation of the Liberal Arts and Sciences; but more efpecially on the Fifth, viz. Geometry» — el exposé de 1730 recoge la misma jerarquía: la masonería se asienta sobre las artes liberales «but more especially on the Fifth, viz. Geometry».
Treated in the works
what each work asserts, with its locatorAnderson — The Constitutions of the Free-Masons (Londres, 1723)
Bogdan y Snoek (eds.) — Handbook of Freemasonry (2014)
Prichard — La Masonería Disecada (trad. castellana de Masonry Dissected, 1730)
Prichard — Masonry Dissected (Londres, 1730)
Stevenson — The Origins of Freemasonry (1988)