books by John Michell

books by John Michell

books:

John Michell

The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena 2 (Rough Guide Reference)
John Michell, Bob Rickard

Rough Guides, 2007

The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena is an exploration of the zone that lies between the known and the unknown, a shadowy territory that''s home to the lake monsters, combusting people, teleporting frogs and man-eating trees. Taking a Fortean path between dogmatic scientists and credulous believers, the authors trace tales of wonder back to ...

The Lost Science of Measuring the Earth: Discovering the Sacred Geometry of the Ancients

Robin Heath, John Michell

Adventures Unlimited Press, 2006

the best remains hidden
The study of ancient metrology and the numerical harmonics embedded within opens the mind to a whole new world. To me, the lack of academic attention to this subject is amazing given the seemingly grounded research these and a few other authors provide. But forget ...

Kashgar: Oasis City on China's Old Silk Road

George Michell, Marika Vicziany, ...

Frances Lincoln, 2008

Cosmpolitan Crossroad
The old, inner city of Kashgar, rather than the relatively new and bland buildings surrounding the area are the focus of this interesting cultural and anthropological examination of the fabled junction city on the southern Silk Road, at the edge of a shifting sandy ...

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions

John F. Michell, John Michell

Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999

great reading
I read this book after reading another by the author as I liked him so much and I was not dissapointed! The book provides detailed, fasinating accounts of people with eccentric hobbies that they have devoted their lives to. For example, Mrs Elizabeth Wells Gallup, ...

The Earth Spirit: Its Ways, Shrines and Mysteries (Art and Imagination)
John F. Michell

Thames & Hudson, 1989

Twelve-Tribe Nations: Sacred Number and the Golden Age
John Michell, Christine Rhone

Inner Traditions, 2008

The symbolism and use of the number twelve in organizing ancient societies ? Connects the zodiac, the twelve months of the year, and the political divisions of ancient nations ? Explores the sacred geography of ancient landscapes in Europe and Israel Throughout the world--in countries as far apart as China, Ireland, Iceland, and ...

Euphonics
John Michell

WOODEN BOOKS (PROF), 2006

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

John F. Michell

Thames & Hudson, 1999

Brilliant, cogent piece.
Just finished reading this... what a wonderful overview of the 'authorship question'. Any Shakespeare student/afionado should read this. Michell takes you through all the stages of authorship scholarship with no bias whatsoever, and presents the cases so clearly ...

The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth

John Michell

Inner Traditions, 2008

A top pick for New Age libraries interested in sacred geometry.
John Michell's THE DIMENSIONS OF PARADISE: SACRED GEOMETRY, ANCIENT SCIENCE, AND THE HEAVENLY ORDER ON EARTH describes the new science of a geometrical code of 'harmonies and proportions devised by the priests of ancient Egypt and underlying sacred structures from ...

The New View over Atlantis

John F. Michell

Thames & Hudson, 2001

A breath of fresh air!
Like many other readers, I agree with the reviewer who said that this book has 'revolutionary implications' for humanity and the sciences. I read the first edition - years back, and in its own way, it changed my entire perspective on life. One reviewer abandoned it as ...

The Dimensions of Paradise: The Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of Ancient Cosmology

John F. Michell, John Michell

Adventures Unlimited Press, 2001

One of the best books on sacred geometry
Ancient science regarded numbers as symbols of the structure of the universe.God created the universe according to divine proportion, expressed in number.Through an understanding of number the ancient sages could approach the divine.In ancient China, Babylon, Egypt ...

View Over Atlantis

John Michell

Ballantine Books, 1977

An in-depth investigation of lost ancient knowledge.
This book is one of my favorites on ancient stone temples and the knowledge of the earth and her energy grids that modern man has lost or failed to see. It proves to the reader that we all live within the ruins of an ancient and lost society that until recently has ...

Australia City Living

John Gollings, George Michell, ...

Thames & Hudson, 2004

Simply Outstanding!
This handsome production is a collaboration between two architecture enthusiasts who have studied architecture & happened to be good in photography too! It contains 390 striking colour illustrations. For those that were accustomed to Crocodile Dundee in the 80s, ...

The Order of the Ages: World History in the Light of a Universal Cosmogony (Perennial Wisdom Series)
Robert Bolton

Sophia Perennis, 2001

The laws which relate the modern world to earlier ages, and the position of our own era in a universal time-cycle, are explained in this book in a way which reveals the essential nature of time. It is shown that time imposes patterns of its own on the order of events, which reveal themselves by numerical regularities. By means of a Platonic view ...

Looking for Orthon: The Story of George Adamski, the First Flying Saucer Contactee, and How He Changed the ...
Colin Bennett

Cosimo Books, 2008

On November 20, 1952, George Adamski first made contact with extraterrestrials--including a long-haired youth from Venus named Orthon--in the California desert...or so he claimed. He offered photographic proof. He wrote books about his encounters, including the sensational bestseller Flying Saucers Have Landed. He never stopped advocating the ...