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To: thelema93-l@hollyfeld.org From: Bill HeidrickSubject: Re: First Appearance of the Unicursal Hexagram? Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 19:57:43 -0800 (PST) 93, Elaine wrote: > I was thinking the other day about Crowley's mention (in BoT ? ) of >the first appearance of the unicursal hexagram and how for so long it was >said to be an "impossible" figure to draw... does anyone know of an earlier >appearance of the uni hexa? Crowley apparently thought that he discovered this figure in the sense of introducing something new. It is not all that common, but known from several precursors. E.g. Giordano Bruno used it as the basis for his "Figura Amoris" in _Articuli Centrum et Sexaginta Adversus huius Tempestatis Mathematicos atque Philosophos_, 1588 e.v. -- source, TLC Feb. 1992 e.v. 93 93/93 Bill Heidrick
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