The Geometry of God
H. Macmillan, D. D. Psalm 147:4 He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names. It was truly said by the famous astronomer Kepler that "God is the great arithmetician." He counts everything that He has made. He makes all things in fixed numbers. He forms the flowers according to certain numerical relations, so fixed and precise that the Linnaean system of classification was based upon them. The roses have five divisions, the lilies three, the seaweeds, lichens and mushrooms two or four, and every other part of their structure is arranged in fives or threes or twos, or by multiplying these figures. Even the little fringe around the mouth of the seed-vessel of a moss growing on the wayside wall, which you can hardly see with your naked eye, if you magnify it with a lens you will find it arranged in exact numbers — four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two — a series in which every number is the double of the preceding one. The leaves of plants are all arranged around the stem on the same principle, and a fir-cone is one of the most beautiful illustrations of it. Crystals are constructed with mathematical regularity. You cannot unite the chemical elements of Nature to form a compound body by chance or in any proportion you please. (H. Macmillan, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. WEB: He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.