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
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| 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
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| Pages: |
409 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8027-7813-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Architecture >
Architectural structure & design
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| 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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