Editing Sacred geometry (section)

==As worldview and cosmology==
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The belief that a god created the universe according to a geometric plan has ancient origins. [[Plutarch]] attributed the belief to [[Plato]], writing that "Plato said God geometrizes continually" (''Convivialium disputationum'', liber 8,2). In modern times, the mathematician [[Carl Friedrich Gauss]] adapted this quote, saying "God arithmetizes".<ref>Cathérine Goldstein, Norbert Schappacher, Joachim Schwermer, ''The shaping of arithmetic'',  [https://books.google.com/books?id=IUFTcOsMTysC&pg=PA235 p. 235].</ref>

[[Johannes Kepler]] (1571–1630) believed in the geometric underpinnings of the cosmos.<ref name=Calter>{{cite web |last1=Calter |first1=Paul |title=Celestial Themes in Art & Architecture |url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit10/unit10.html |publisher=[[Dartmouth College]] |access-date=5 September 2015 |date=1998}}</ref> Harvard mathematician [[Shing-Tung Yau]] expressed a belief in the centrality of geometry in 2010:
"Lest one conclude that geometry is little more than a well-calibrated ruler – and this is no knock against the ruler, which happens to be a technology I admire – geometry is one of the main avenues available to us for probing the universe. Physics and cosmology have been, almost by definition, absolutely crucial for making sense of the universe. Geometry's role in this may be less obvious, but is equally vital. I would go so far as to say that geometry not only deserves a place at the table alongside physics and cosmology, but in many ways, it is the table."<ref>Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis, The Shape of Inner Space, (New York: Basic Books, 2010), 18.</ref>