Sacred Number: The Secret Quality of Quantities
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.
- Author
- Miranda Lundy, Harry McNaugh, Adam Tetlow
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 64
- Series
- Wooden Books
- Publisher
- Walker Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780802714565
- Genres
- mathematics, science
- Release date
- 2005
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