geometrizing

"Pacioli believed that stereotomy, the careful 'geometrizing' of stone through cutting and polishing, could transmute and spiritualize lowly matter, evoking St. John's Heavenly Jersualem made of 'pure gold resembling pure glass.'"

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

General relativity revived a geometrizing tendency essentially dormant within physics since the

Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity

Before turning attention to their "interpretations", it will be helpful to see how the geometrizing tendency arises within general relativity itself and to note a few details of the geometrical unification program that followed in its wake.

Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity

'God geometrizes,' it used to be said; and it was believed that Euclid's elements literally reproduced his geometrizing.

Meaning of Truth

Bunker Archeology would call this the "strategic geometrizing" of "defensive redoubt" that gives the military the ability to convert the city into a fragmented prison overnight by suddenly dropping a bunch of walls into it that throw entire districts into lockdown.

Subtopia

Plato as saying, "God is always geometrizing" (_Diog.

The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry