Ben-Uri, Meir. Lshon Beniyah Ba’torah Ha’kiyor Ve’kano

(JEWISH ART)

Ha’machon Le’omanut Datit

Haifa

1968

Handcolored lithograph. Replete with detailed draft-drawings of the sacred objects of Solomon’s Temple. Presentation Copy, Inscribed by the Author to A. M. Haberman on wrapper. With manuscript mathematical notes to Yonah Emanuel, editor of Hama’ayan

With attractive and accurate architectural draft drawings to scale of the Temple wash-basin and its base, used by the Priests to wash their hands and feet simultaneously. The mathematical proportions of the basin prove the Temple architects had knowledge of the Phi mathematical constant