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New Tabular Evidence of a Monument in Harmony with the Universe: A Sourcebook on Nature's Numbers for Artists & Architects

by Joseph Turbeville

133 pages; Spiral coil; catalogue #03-1495; ISBN 1-4120-1116-7; US$17.95, C$23.00, EUR14.95, £10.36

The Glimmer Tables - An archeological find made without the aid of pick and shovel. The Wheel of Phi - A root source for the numbers of nature.

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About the Book An awareness and appreciation of the beauty of symmetry and harmony that can be found in all of nature must surely have been responsible for the intuitive leap of the author's imagination to cause the creation of the mathematical tables that were first presented in A Glimmer of Light from the Eye of a Giant. The new tables and figures presented in this edition combine with the earlier ones to provide reasonably sound numerical data that support the "intelligent design movement" of creationists. The Wheels of Phi and the Glimmer Tables together provide a root source for the "numbers of nature", and the Trigonometric Phi Function Selection Rule identifies those numbers that might be expressed in terms of Phi. Such numbers are thought to infuse aesthetical value into the designs of artist and architects. For an autographed copy of the book, or for more information, visit the author's website at www.eyeofagiant.com. Joseph's first book with Trafford, A Glimmer of Light From the Eye of a Giant, is also available for sale here.

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About the Author Serving as a merchant seaman during the height of World War II, and later sailing as a deck officer provided the author with a first understanding of navigation and the mechanics of the universe. During the 60's Turbeville obtained two degrees in Physics and began an academic career of management, teaching, and research at the University of South Florida. Later he undertook the development of an oil spill recovery concept. The resulting patents led to an invitation from the University of Trondheim in Norway, where Turbeville worked for a year as a research associate. Turbeville moved from Florida in the mid-80's to the North Carolina mountains and began teaching at the University of Western North Carolina on a part-time basis as a fi rst step toward settling into the slower pace of life the author now enjoys.

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A Review of Joseph Turbeville's latest book: New Tabular Evidence of a Monument in Harmony with the Universe

The title to Joseph Turbeville's new book (an expanded edition of his previous book) is almost as big as the book itself. Caution: don't let the size of the book fool you. At just 133 pages, New Tabular Evidence of a Monument in Harmony with the Universe is so loaded with astounding mathematical discoveries it seems ready to explode.

This new edition covers much of the material presented in his first book (A Glimmer of Light from the Eye of a Giant) but contains exciting new material based upon, and related to, the work presented in the first edition, including new illustrations and graphs as well as all of his original mathematical tables.

For those not familiar with the first edition, the foundation of this important work is the Fibonacci number sequence. This sequence yields remarkably significant numbers when the multi-digit numbers in the sequence are distilled to single digits and subjected to Turbeville's unique calculation tables. By "significant numbers" I mean numbers that are specifically related to things such as the exterior dimensions of the Great Pyramid, Da Vinci's Vetruvian Man, the diameters of the planets and moons, the Golden Proportion (Phi), the Pi constant and the interwoven connections among and between all of these items and more. Talk about a cosmic tapestry. Turbeville has tapped into it and he hangs it on the pages of his book for us to marvel at.

While the reader with a good background in mathematics will find him/herself in Math Heaven, the general reader with only a high school math background should not be discouraged from giving this book a chance. The language is such that the general reader will find much of it intellectually stimulating. I should know because I fall into the latter catagory and I'm simply astounded by the discoveries Turbeville has made.

Has Turbeville simply stumbled into, and rediscovered, a knowledge base that was once common to the ancients as evidenced by the artifacts and monuments they left behind? Or did they incorporate these mathematical formulas into their work without realizing it? Turbeville believes they knew exactly what they were doing and suggests they may even have had tables in their possession similar to those which he has devised in the course of his exploration of the Fibonacci sequence.

Truly, some mind boggling relationships between seemingly unrelated things have been discovered in Turbeville's work. To cite just one example, he brings up a classic problem often presented to physics students. It concerns the hypothetical experiment of dropping a ball into a hole that has been bored straight down through the center of the earth. Using the 30 degree latitude of earth's surface (the approximate latitude of the Great Pyramid) and factoring in the gravitational differential in feet per second from the surface of the earth to the center of the earth, as well as other pertinent variables, Turbeville shows the calculations to determine the maximum velocity that the ball will achieve during it's decent. The result is 25920 feet per second. He comments on a surprising "coincidence":

"It is extremely interesting that the numerical value for the maximum velocity in this hypothetical problem is identical to the tabular value for the Earth's ecliptic cycle of 25920 years." (p. 63)

If that isn't tantalizing enough, Turbeville finds yet another remarkable correlation in his discussion about the speed required for an object to maintain a low-level Earth orbit (25920 ft/sec.) in a purely hypothetical situation in which there is no atmosphere to contend with. He writes:

"The hypothetical Earth orbit time and the oscillatory period of the ball in the 'hypothetical hole' form a square root ratio approximating the Golden Ratio Phi." (p. 65)

He doesn't just make this pronouncement and leave it at that. He provides the proof in a simple step-by-step demonstration of the math which does, indeed, result in the Golden Ratio.

And for those folks whose interests lean more toward the lesser science (dare we even call it a science?) of such things as alphanumeric synchronicity, there is even something here for them. This is where Turbeville borrows from the work of "yours truly" (http://hometown.aol.com/codeufo/gematria.html) and, applying his unique data to my data, finds correlations between our two seemingly separate realms of exploration that stunned even me. How is it, for example, that when the numbers 0 through 9 are converted into the words, ZERO through NINE, the resulting alphanumeric values are found to be in direct correlation with the numbers generated in Turbeville's tables based on permutations of the Fibonacci sequence, not to mention the exterior dimensions of the Great Pyramid? And how does the mystery of the number 9 fit into the entire scheme? As Turbeville, himself, points out in this latest edition of his book:

"Many of these numbers in the past were given religious significance and meaning in the old languages of Hebrew, Greek and Arabic, in systems that were concerned with the assignment of numbers to sounds and letters or their alphabets. This was the science known as Gematria." (p.49)

Any reader whose interests include any of these subjects (the Great Pyramid, ancient mysteries, Fibonacci numbers, Pythagorean mathematics, celestial mechanics, gematria, etc.) will find something of value in this extended edition of Turbeville's groundbreaking work.

Gary Val Tenuta
Author of The Secret Of Nine
http://hometown.aol.com/codeufo/gematria.html

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