四分法：数论、几何学、音乐学和宇宙学四门古典学科

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

[基本信息/Product Details]

出版社 : Bloomsbury USA; 第 64437th 版 (2010年11月1日)

语言 : 英语

精装 : 416页

ISBN-10 : 0802778135

ISBN-13 : 978-0802778130

商品重量 : 885 g

尺寸 : 16.33 x 3.4 x 19.48 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

[书籍内容/Book Description]

四分法的四门古典学科包括数学、几何、音乐和宇宙学这四门文科。从古代到文艺复兴时期，人们都把它作为一种了解现实本质的方式来研究。几何在空间中是数字的代表;音乐在时间中是数字的符号;而宇宙学是时空的共同表达。数字、音乐和几何都是形而上学的真理:宇宙中的生命都在研究它们;它们预示着自然科学的发展。

《四分法》是几百年来将这四门学科结合在一起的第一卷。它由wood Books百科系列中的六个成功书籍组成——《Sacred Geometry》、《Sacred Number》、《 Harmonograph》、《The Elements of Music》、《Platonic & Archimedean Solids》和《A Little Book of Coincidence》——这个系列使我们如今可以接触到古代聪明的智慧及其惊人的相互联系。

Quadrivium将吸引所有对数学、音乐、天文学和宇宙运作感兴趣的人。

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.

Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the classical philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books are designed not to date. Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000 Wooden Books now in print worldwide and growing.

[作者简介/Author]

The five authors whose books comprise QUADRIVIUM are Miranda Lundy, Anthony Ashton,, Jason Martineau, Daud Sutton, and John Martineau.

[系列简介/Series introduction]

wood Books系列是由设计师John Martineau于1999年在Hay-on-Wye创立的。其目的是制作一系列基于哲学、艺术和科学的精美书籍。在书的装帧设计方面特别邀请了英国著名儿童插画家Beatrix Potter担任插画设计，并使用老式字体，手绘插图和19世纪风的版画装帧设计，这些书古旧的设计风没有过时，反而风靡全球深受欢迎

书本虽然小但充满了知识，且符合环保理念，小小的空间里暗藏着大想法。目前，全球有超过100万本wood Books系列书籍在印刷，并不断增长，从加拿大到韩国，希腊到西班牙，日本到捷克共和国的读者都被这一创新系列的独特魅力所吸引。

Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books were designed not to date.

Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000 Wooden Books now in print worldwide and growing, as readers from Canada to Korea, Greece to Spain, Japan to the Czech Republic all fall under the unique spell of this innovative series.

Every page of every little Wooden Book can be quickly browsed on our groundbreaking website www.woodenbooks.com - try before you buy, just like in a bookshop. You can also design your own star-covered box-set, or download PDFs.

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