A Mathematical Code Hidden in Sumerian Art

 

Report: #0113

A mathematical code hidden in Sumerian art, four thousand years ago!

Geometry Mathematics in art, four thousand years ago.

The fact that art emerged from the very beginning of humanity is a sensation – even though problems like food for all, education, health, and defending territorial boundaries weren't solved yet. Every society, throughout history, created works of art alongside the beginnings of organized civilization.

Even warriors, soldiers, imperialists – or simply a group of Neanderthals near the coast, Vikings in the north, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Maya, Aztecs – and in short, all peoples – revealed themselves, sometimes thousands of years later, solely through their art.  The desire to create art is a secret still unrevealed. Possibly, one day in genetic deciphering, we'll find a gene that causes this urge.

It would surely be a discovery of great importance. It would clarify humanity's start as intelligent societies and beings distinct from animals.  But very soon, works were made with surprising technologies and knowledge in materials, forms, and tools used.

The urge to paint, sculpt, or work iron or stone doesn't mean you can start immediately. Tools and materials must be invented that best serve the purpose.

All that are truly impressive achievements of a humanity just awakened.  With the perfection of techniques came the most astonishing works of art. Once knowing how to fabricate a work, they began writing and describing everyday events. Influential people had themselves reproduced in every possible form and material. In many works – as suspected with greater certainty after Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code – some messages were hidden. Messages about a character, the location of a hidden treasure, or important knowledge.

They were hidden because revealing some state secret, church origin, or important wisdom was forbidden and punished by death.

It's also believed that some technological discoveries weren't yet for common people. To not lose them in time, they were hidden in works that, due to their value, would be cared for and saved from catastrophes until the right moment for their rediscovery or comprehension.

That's how, I believe, it happened with this carved stone sculpture of a fictional character from the Sumerian era. That is, it's a work of art made four thousand years ago, many years before Euclid, the Greek mathematician and philosopher.  

 

 Euklid, 325-270 v.Chr

Many years before René Descartes, who rediscovered formulas hidden and forgotten thousands of years later.  

 René Descartes 1596 – 1650

René Descartes was a French philosopher whose work, La Géométrie, includes his application of algebra to geometry, from which we now have Cartesian geometry. His work had great influence on both mathematicians and philosophers.

  

René Descartes Recognized on a stamp

René Descartes honored on a stamp, but there are two secrets in it.  From where did this sculptor get his mathematical knowledge of a discovery that happened two thousand years later—and another rediscovery of the same formula nearly three thousand five hundred years later?

What am I talking about? The formula for the "golden proportion," or the golden cut—or in English, the Golden Section. In German, Der goldene Schnitt.

The formula for calculating the "golden proportion"  

What does this formula have to do with this common stone figure?

A work of art of a fictional character from the Sumerian era. 

A face like this doesn't exist and didn't exist. It's fiction!

Even though it looks alive, it never was.

It's a portion of a circle calculated with this formula – reinvented three times: by Euclid, at least two thousand years later, and by René Descartes, 3,500 years after.

The shape of his face is exactly this spiral, obtained with this formula.  This face is fiction. This face hides the mathematical code of the Golden Section or divine proportion with its magical figure of 1.618.  Whoever is more interested in this formula will find plenty of information available. Soon, I'll do another report on these formulas.

I overlaid the face with a spiral, and it matches the geometry of the face exactly.

  

I inserted the drawing of the formula that produces this magical curve, and it matches the face exactly. It's a geometry hiding a formula that would be invented thousands of years later by Euclid.

The ear is another curve for which I haven't yet found the formula.  A hieroglyph? A code?

The ear too is a code or hieroglyph of one or two united formulas. It may be that two curves were united to draw this design. It's not an ear. It's a hieroglyph hiding, just like the face, a mathematical code. 

Josef Bauer

more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

http://www.goldennumber.net/

in español: el codigo de los sumerios