Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci's Sacred Geometry

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Published 2024-03-02
Leonardo used ‘Sacred Geometry’ as an underlying organizational principle in art, engineering, and architecture. The secretive tradition of sacred geometry centers on number, harmony, geometry, and cosmology. It spans back through the mists of time to Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian, Greek, and Roman civilizations. It is evident in the stone circles of Stonehenge, and Greek and Roman Temples through the ancient world.

Leonardo, used geometry in the design process. But unlike modern geometry, there was no clear distinction between pure geometry, harmonics, and astrology. These concepts at the time were interrelated and were called the ‘Music of the Spheres’ as artists and architects tried to incorporate harmonic proportions of the cosmos into works of art and architecture.

To understand Leonardo, we must understand sacred geometry, and how he used it in his work. In this video we will give a glimpse and insight into Leonardo’s secrets of sacred geometry.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:25 Rediscovering Vitruvian Technology
5:50 Art
11:45 Engineering
14:23 Architecture
16:38 Geometry
28:48 Sacred Geometry
31:40 Outro

Disclaimer:
There are a lot of difficult to pronounce words in this video. Please excuse me if my pronunciation is not perfect.
All Comments (21)
  • @overhaul886
    I am an undergraduate architecture student and this is one of my favorite channels on YouTube. Your study of geometry is incredibly fascinating, would love to hear more.
  • @peterm.fitzpatrick7735
    My parents bought us "Edmund Scientific" toys for us when were little, and I remember there being one that had orange a plastic cube, sphere, and similar geometric shapes. They came in handy when in philosophy class, as a young adult in college, and our teacher asked if anyone knew what a platonic solid was. My memory of those small orange "toys" popped into my mind, and I answered correctly. Not quite a Platonic "recollection", but close!
  • @davidsilverhawk3732
    What wonderful achievement! I have neither heard or seen such a wonderful presentation on Sacred Geometry!!!! Thank you for sharing this incredible knowledge with us!!!!! Many Blessings to you!!!
  • @golden1789
    As an art historian loved this video and would love more.
  • @Micropterus06
    Epic, thank you for this induction to awareness of the seeming enveloping structures of nature
  • @dizzygee87
    This is incredible! Have been fascinated by all this stuff since i was a kid with my spirographs. Also I like the work Nassim Haremin is doing on this now continuing this tradition
  • @raz000m
    More secret geometry videos, please! Also maybe with practical use in design process if possible...
  • @DUKTband
    The whole channel - the topics you present and the accessible way you talk about them are extremely valuable. The topic of sacred geometry is coming up more and more in my life, hence I was very happy to see this material talking a bit about it. More videos on this topic would be great, I feel that it is very comprehensive and understanding it really well gives a person a lot of creation power on various levels. Warm regards.
  • @veritas5008
    Very good. I was educated and entertained. Thank you. More Sacred Geometry has my vote 👍
  • @danielreiff8320
    This video is more informative than all my mathematical classes.
  • @1GoodWoman
    So glad I found you! Concerning music, I think the frequency for tuning music and orchestras has changed over time. When played in buildings at different tuned pitches this has to impact human bodies. Other than keeping people alive does modern architecture examine the impact of sound frequencies on people?
  • @dereksmith2910
    Yes, please! More of the geometry and the history of mathmatics, geometry, and numbers. Thank you.
  • @A-Znation
    Please 🙏 make more videos I’ve been wondering why I keep painting the same thing lately and this video about sacred geometry is so rlightening around this … I loved it thank you so much!!!!
  • @lightfeatherart2831
    Great job, bravo! Two things: 1) You mentioned that the icosahedron is made of isosceles triangles. They are equilateral. 2) Not many folks, save actual geometers, payed close enough to metatron’s cube to realize that two forms are incorrectly depicted in them: Icosahedron and Dodecahedron. They is because they are phi forms and must be arrived at via a different way via straight edge and compass. I construct polyhedra with wood and if you hold them in your hand and look at metatron’s cube renditions of those forms, they are warped, or corseted in back and flat in front. I recommend trying it. Tetrahedrons, cubes and octahedrons are accurately found in MC.
  • @vectorequilibrium4493
    I’m left handed and can write mirror image like good old Leonardo. Love geometry. Good show. 🙏🏻😁
  • @evannaallen4609
    This is brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing information on this subject that is well researched and not mainstream. Deeply appreciate this.
  • @joshuatinkham3156
    Very informative video, please continue to make more of them, thank you for your time and effort you put into making this information available to people