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Is there a secret visual language all around us? What's so special about the shape of the Great Pyramid? Why is there something so sexy about circles? How many ways can you tile the plane? Lavishly illustrated by the author, this enchanting small introduction to one of the oldest and most widely-used ancient traditions on Earth will forever change the way you look at a triangle, arch, window, fabric repeat, ceramic pattern, graphic design, pai...

Das Quadrivium umfasst die vier sogenannten freien Künste Arithmetik, Geometrie, Musik und Kosmologie. Diese vier Wissenschaften galten von der Antike bis in die Renaissancezeit als Schlüssel zur Ergründung des wahren Wesens unserer Wirklichkeit. Das Quadrivium ist eine Synthese aus Zahlen, Raum und Zeit: mit der Geometrie als Ausdruck von Zahlen im Raum, der Musik als Zahlenfolge in der Zeit und dem Kosmos als Beschreibung von Zahlen in beide...

Miranda Lundy gives us a beautiful glimpse into the world of shapes and the geometry behind some of mankind's most famous creations.Geometry is one of a group of special sciences - Number, Music and Cosmology are the others - found identically in nearly every culture on earth. In this small volume, Miranda Lundy presents a unique introduction to this most ancient and timeless of universal sciences.Sacred Geometry demonstrates what happens to s...

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 cosmology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them, they foreshadow the physical sciences...

Numbers permeate every aspect of our lives, very little happens without a basic ability to manipulate the simple whole numbers we all take for granted. Beautifully illustrated with old engravings as well as contemporary imagery, Sacred Number introduces basic counting systems, significant numbers from major religious texts, the importance of astronomy, geometry, and music to number quality, how numbers affect architecture. Lundy explains why t...

Following on from the incredible US success of her bestselling "Sacred Geometry" Miranda Lundy here describes the secret qualities of quantities.

The only small, concise volume on this ancient subject of timeless and worldwide principles of design and proportion.