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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.

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  • AJI.9
    Coffee table read。 BOOK I和II可以给四分 可惜最后两章给1分 但是最后附录还是很不错的~08-04
  • 驭风
    自小对数字和几何等恐惧。随着读的心灵的书籍越多,发现美、身体和生活规律无数不在。更不用说大数据时代。正如书中所说,几何是空间的数学,音乐是时间的数学,而宇宙是时间和空间的数学。他们生命在穿梭过宇宙的时候展现的方式。 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.11-28

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