1995 年 60 巻 473 号 p. 177-182
Through the close reading of Epitre aux lecteurs in Le Premier tome de I'Architecture, I aim at composing De l'Orme's view of Cosmos systematically, in the light of Hermetism and Pythagoreanism, and explicating logical relations between Cosmos and Architecture. His image of Cosmos consists of God, Celestial world, and Terrestrial world. Celestial world is a orderly body under numeral proportions. This order is intelligible and sensible, and also it is paradigm for things in Terrestrial world. Things, including buildings, have to resemble the order of Celestial world. The sign of this resemblance is sacred number 7.