Quadrivium : Number, Geometry, Music, Heaven

English

Series: Wooden Bks.

ISBN: 0802778135

EAN: 9780802778130

Category: Mathematics / Geometry / General

Publisher: Walker & Company

Release Date: 10/31/2010

Synopsis: The quadriviumthe classical curriculumcomprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and comology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them; they foreshadow the physical sciences. Quadriviumis the first volume to bring together these four subjects in many hundreds of years. Composed of six successful titles in the Wooden Books series Sacred Geometry, Sacred Number, Harmonograph, The Elements of Music, Platonic & Archimedean Solids, and A Little Book of Coincidenceit makes ancient wisdom and its astonishing interconnectedness accessible to us today. Beautifully produced in six different colors of ink, Quadriviumwill appeal to anyone interested in mathematics, music, astronomy, and how the universe works.

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Quadrivium : Number, Geometry, Music, Heaven

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.3 inches

Width: 6.35 inches

Length: 7.7 inches

Weight: 30.62 oz

Pages: 384