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Title: A Little Book of Coincidence (Wooden Books)
ISBN: 0802713882
Author:
John Martineau
Publicate Date: 2002-04-01
Publish: 2002-04-01
List Price: $12.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Not about coincidence
The Wooden Books series is wonderful. This is a beautiful member of the line, but it is about the geometric harmonies of the solar system, not so much about coincidence as such, so I felt a little disappointment.
I have been looking for a book on coincidence. This is not it.
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2: Marvelous
This is a really great little book, a work of art. I like the way John Martineau leaves it to you, the reader, to make up your own mind over what these amazing coincidences mean. The pictures are beautiful. What an incredible place our solar system is. Why dont teachers teach us these things in school??
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3: very disappointing
I was looking for a book that provides an alternative, "esoteric" point of view on the solar system. Unfortunately i was completely misled by the table of contents which looked very appealing. In fact the actual contents of each chapter are very small, and sometimes have nothing to do with the title of the chapter! Page after page the author keeps looking for coincidences in ratios between sizes, periods and orbits of the planets. But after 5 pages it becomes very repetitive and boring.
My final impression is that the author has not found an efficient approach to the object he is trying to study. Astrology is probably the efficient approach to better understand our solar system.
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4: Interesting at least.
I very much like the fact that this book isn't trying to state these coincidences are all part of a grander scheme. It lets us pose that question for ourselves.
The Spiro-graphic orbits - especially that of Venus / Earth are incredible. I must say though, a few of these coincidences are a stretch. Adding and subtracting whole numbers from phi allow many of these to occur, and I cannot see how this can be rationalized. Maybe I didn't understand it correctly, or I'm looking to deep into it.
This book is simple, and poses no views. In my opinion, look at it as interesting cosmic relations and planetary art - but don't look into it much further.
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5: The best book yet on Cosmic Weirdness
I don't know what the previous reviewer was going on about - personally I found the planet-centred pictures fascinating (in particular those involving the small planetoid Chiron which turns out to be highly harmonic/resonant with its neighbours). If I had one criticism of this book it would be that the author does not in fact go into resonance as the likely explanation for many of the coincidences he describes, but hey, since most scientists don't seem to talk about it either (they haven't quite cracked it yet), I can see why he goes for the Harry Potter style instead. This is a great book, leave it by the toilet, read a little every day, and have your brain fundamentally rewired. Why has nobody noticed all this stuff before? Astophysicists, this is your wake-up call!
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