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标题：Design Principles of Early Stone Pagodas in Ancient Korean Architecture: Case Studies on the Stone Pagodas at Chŏngnimsa and Kamŭnsa Buddhist Temples
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作者：Juhwan Cha ; Juhwan Cha ; Young Jae Kim 等
期刊名称：Religions
电子版ISSN：2077-1444
出版年度：2019
卷号：10
期号：3
页码：208
DOI：10.3390/rel10030208
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Ancient books on East Asian mathematics introduced to the Korean Peninsula enrich our understanding of the arithmetic notions that mold the creative thought processes of the ancients. They believed that all objects in the universe could be composed of circles and squares and all items could be expressed in terms of geometrical profiles. Through the combination of circles and squares, the ancient East Asians expressed the order of the world and unraveled it mathematically. These principles are evident in the construction principles of early Korean stone pagodas. In particular, the square root of 2 (√2) is a very important number in the delineation represented in the consolidation of inscribed and circumscribed circles with squares. Further, the square root of 2 is applied as a design principle in the construction of the stone pagodas at the temples Chŏngnimsa and Kamŭnsa. This article demonstrates that the ancients on the continuous impact of the Jiuzhang Suanshu and the Zhoubi Suanshu constructed the pagodas complying with design principles based on the arithmetic and geometric proportional systems of √2 times, which are intended to adjust compositional proportions and the gradual decrease in length to shape the tripartite partition of the foundation, the pagoda body, and the finial in stone pagodas.
关键词：Jiuzhang Suanshu ; Zhoubi Suanshu ; stone pagodas at the Chŏngnimsa and Kamŭnsa Buddhist Temples; arithmetic proportional system; inscribed and circumscribed circles; the square root of 2 (√2) Jiuzhang Suanshu ; Zhoubi Suanshu ; stone pagodas at the Chŏngnimsa and Kamŭnsa Buddhist Temples ; arithmetic proportional system ; inscribed and circumscribed circles ; the square root of 2 (√2)