Gallery: Martineau Solar System

Background Video, Info & Exhibits of the Martineau Solar System

Calendars of Martineau Solar System Imagery (updated for 2025 dates!)

Online Gallery – Martineau Solar System (Sacred Geometry Art)

Background Information on the Martineau Solar System – Highly Accurate Geometric Models of Planetary Orbits

The Martineau Solar System Series consists of 12 ray-traced images inspired by the remarkable work of geometer John Martineau, in ” A Little Book of Coincidence“. I think Martineau will (someday, hopefully soon!) be heralded among Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein for the astronomical discoveries he’s made. I HIGHLY recommend John’s book if you haven’t seen it. In it, he details dozens of astonishingly accurate and simple geometrical models of our solar system that I imagine will become grade school classics for teaching the relative spacing of planets. These simple models use circles, triangles, squares, pentagrams, hexagrams, octagrams, and a few 3D models. I had the privilege of meeting John in the summer of 2004, and learned of his Neptune/Uranus model (too new to be in his book) which uses a tetrahedron and truncated tetrahedron, respectively; the new model shown below on the right. This model is in the 99%+ accuracy range, like all the others. A number of people have asked for a page on the site showing my verifications of his ratios, so I’ll upload that soon…

If Kepler had only known how close his original concept in Mysterium Cosmographicum was for nesting polyhedra… He was on the right track! The other two new images are composites of various models and are at the bottom of this page (They feature a background tiling of Kirlian photos I took many years ago.)

For low cost prints (posters and canvas), cards and apparel, click the links above. Our Events page has a list of current and past exhibits of this and other artwork.

There are more details on my blog.)

Here is an article I wrote on the subject.

… and a reference to the original article,
which appeared in the journal “Symmetry: Culture and Science”, Vol 16, No. 2, 2005, (Journal of the Symmetrion, editor: Gyorgy Darvas,
Polyhedra, Part 3; postal address: Budapest, P. O. Box 994, H-1245 Hungary) on pages 193-196.

Here are links for further exploration:
http://members.cruzio.com/~devarco/life.htm
http://www.halexandria.org/dward116.htm

Calendars for 2025 are available on Lulu.com

Twelve images from the Martineau Solar System series are STILL available as a full-color calendar. The “Homage to Kepler” art was on the cover of the prior calendars. Here’s a press release about the calendar.

Here’s a YouTube clip of me talking about this series at the Mobius Gallery; thanks to Dan Shaw for videotaping. More about this event on my Events Page.