Geometric Design Principles
With the doubling the circle template, we can also halfen the circle. A circle inscribed within 30 degree latitude lines has a radius of 1/2 the larger circle, and is 1/4 the area. The second reduction, which gives us the base line for the 51.5 degree triangle has half the radius of that one and 1/4 its area. This small circle is 1/16 the area of the larger one.
 Michael Scneider proclaims that, "It has been my experience investigating the geometry of sacred architecture that a Rose Window displays in miniature the geometry of the larger Cathedral. In modern terms, the Rose Window is a fractal of the Cathedral". What this means is that we should be able to work out from the window to the general scheme of the building as I have been showing. Here (below) is his analysis of the building.
 He figures since the window is a fractal of the building, and the window looks like this (below left) and since "this same lovely geometric construction has been shown by John Martineau in his great work "A Little Book Of Coincidence" as the relative orbits of Earth and Mars (the large inner and outer circles) with 99.9% accuracy" (below right), then that is probably the template for the building.
  Please back up one page and look at the central circle, then the circle over the main entrance, then the triangle at the top. Here that triangle is half a square. The triangles over the entrances are equilateral.
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