Product Details
Sacred Number: The Secret Quality of Quantities (Wooden Books)

Sacred Number: The Secret Quality of Quantities (Wooden Books)
By Miranda Lundy

List Price: $12.00
Price: $9.60 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com

37 new or used available from $5.95

Average customer review:
A splendid excursion into the cultural precendents for holding numbers in mystical esteem, with a wealth of imaginative directions to explore.

Product Description

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.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #260850 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-09-01
  • Released on: 2005-08-25
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 64 pages

Editorial Reviews

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

Customer Reviews

An Incredibly Beautiful Book5
I was given this book as a present and have now read it over ten times. Lovely images and good mathematics. Lundy covers the numbers 1-12 in detail, listing their relationships to music, geometry and Pythagorean number theory, as well as some cultural background. She does this without sounding either too 'symbolic' or too 'mathematical'. Each number is presented with its own compound illustration, and these are - to put it plainly - quite awesomely well executed. The book then goes off into Magic Squares, Gematria and other esoterica again managing to stay neat, informative and historical. Finally there are extensive appendices. I utterly commend this rare, beautiful and fascinating book to anyone with even a passing interest in numbers.