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AUTHOR |
Lundy, Miranda. |
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TITLE |
Quadrivium : the four classical liberal arts of number, geometry, music & cosmology / Miranda Lundy ; Daud Sutton ; Anthony Aston ; Jason Martineau ; John Martineau. |
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IMPRINT |
New York : Walker & Company, 2010. |
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DESCRIPTION |
409 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm. |
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SERIES |
Wooden books. |
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CONTENT NOTE |
Sacred number / Miranda Lundy Sacred geometry / Miranda Lundy Platonic & Aarchimedean solids / Daud Sutton - Harmonograph / Anthony Ashton The elements of music / Jason Martineau A little book of coincidence / John Martineau. |
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SUMMARY |
"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 a. |
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SUBJECT |
Geometry, Plane. |
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DISCIPLINE |
Mathematics. |
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OTHER TITLE |
Four classical liberal arts of number, geometry, music & cosmology. |
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ISBN |
9780802778130 (hbk.). |
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English Book Collection |
516 LUN |
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