Sacred Number: The Secret Quality of Quantities: The Secret Qualities Of Quantities - Hardcover

Lundy, Miranda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802714560 ISBN 13: 9780802714565

Verlag: WALKER & CO, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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 the ideas of Pythagoras still resonate, and she profiles each number from one to ten to show its distinct qualities: why, for example, the golden section is associated with five, and seven with the Virgin Mary.

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Miranda Lundy has studied the history of number for most of her life. The author of Sacred Geometry, she lives in England.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WALKER & CO
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802714560
• ISBN 13: 9780802714565
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 58
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