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: #136161 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-01
• Released on: 2005-08-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 64 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780802714565
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

An Incredibly Beautiful Book
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.

Amazing
As a mathematician I have to say I loved this book, as well as the entire wooden books series. The book is 50% image and 50% language, the perfect combination to keep both mind and eye engaged. The wooden book claim of, "little books, big ideas" couldn't be more true than this book. I have read it many times. I intend to read it many more times and will probably buy several copies for my friends.