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Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology

by Miranda Lundy

Four arts, one framework

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Four arts, one framework

Quadrivium brings number, geometry, music, and cosmology together as the four arts of a classical curriculum. The book presents their relationships through ideas such as geometry as number in space and music as number in time, linking abstract patterns to ways of understanding the physical universe. Its material is assembled from six Wooden Books titles, including works on sacred geometry, musical forms, solids, and coincidence. The result is a cross-disciplinary introduction to a historical framework in which mathematical ideas connect spatial, temporal, and cosmic questions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history and philosophy of mathematics.
  • Those exploring connections among geometry, music, astronomy, and cosmology.
  • Readers seeking an introduction to the classical liberal arts of the quadrivium.

Themes

Classical educationNumber and patternGeometry and spaceMusic and mathematicsCosmology

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Book overview

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.


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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