Quadrivium - The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology (Hardcover)

The quadrivium--the classical curriculum--comprises 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.

"Quadrivium" is 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 Coincidence"--it makes ancient wisdom and its astonishing interconnectedness accessible to us today.

Beautifully produced in six different colors of ink, "Quadrivium" will appeal to anyone interested in mathematics, music, astronomy, and how the universe works.

General

Imprint:	Walker Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Wooden Books
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	October 2010
Dimensions:	193 x 162 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Paper over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	409
ISBN-13:	978-0-8027-7813-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design
LSN:	0-8027-7813-5
Barcode:	9780802778130

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Sat, 10 Sep 2022 | Review by: John H.

I love these Wooden Books. Every one a treasure, an adventure, and something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. It would be hard to find a better revelation on the medieval mind than discussing the relative size of the earth and moon as 11:3 and therefore a circle of radius equal to the earth+moon radius would have a circumference equal to the perimeter of a square with sides equal to the diameter of earth.

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