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

by Anthony Ashton, Daud Sutton, Jason Martineau, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802778135
• ISBN13: 9780802778130
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Walker & Company
• Length: 409 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 7.5"