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willandbeyond's review against another edition
This cabin-housed book is full of rambly bullshit.
amandapearl's review against another edition
4.0
An incredibly fun, well illustrated and densely packed read. Anyone will enjoy, but this isn't for the faint of heart; there's a lot of information packed into these pages and sometimes you'll want to reread the same section or go back to a previous chapter to refresh your memory.
A wonderful look at the classical arts - geometry, arithmetic, music and cosmology, Quadrivium connects dots and expounds on the math and beauty constantly swimming in our world's ether.
A wonderful look at the classical arts - geometry, arithmetic, music and cosmology, Quadrivium connects dots and expounds on the math and beauty constantly swimming in our world's ether.
wtfisher's review against another edition
3.0
This could be a source text for a Dan Brown novel, full of dubious "ancient and sacred" connections. There is a lot of interesting content about how math and ratios create beauty in architecture and music that I hadn't learned about before. On the other hand, music and math theory are two areas that generally make my brain freeze over in confusion and the writing style here does not elucidate them.
paigemcloughlin's review against another edition
5.0
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update 12/29/2021 beautiful beguiling books with the four minor mathematical arts of the ancient seven liberal arts. Beautiful and fascinating but a little untrustworthy like ancient wisdom. I don't blame them they did their best. Enjoyable in the ingenuity of the ancients in seeing patterns in number, geometry, music, and astronomy. Sometimes they were fooled but found some nice gems on the way.
update 12/29/2021 beautiful beguiling books with the four minor mathematical arts of the ancient seven liberal arts. Beautiful and fascinating but a little untrustworthy like ancient wisdom. I don't blame them they did their best. Enjoyable in the ingenuity of the ancients in seeing patterns in number, geometry, music, and astronomy. Sometimes they were fooled but found some nice gems on the way.
wickedmitch's review against another edition
5.0
A good guide showing connections between the building blocks of our world and the metaphysical one.
josiahdegraaf's review against another edition
4.0
Fascinating book on the Quadrivium. I learned a lot from it. At times the book went beyond my ability to understand it (particularly in the geometry and music sections), but it was accessible for the most part. The biggest thing I gained from this, however, was not specific knowledge about the Quadrivium, but a better grasp on the larger point of the Quadrivium and how the Quadrivium is meant to be viewed (or: rather, how the Quadrivium is to reshape our own views and feelings).
At the end of the day, it's more of a "here's a bunch of cool facts about the Quadrivium" book than anything else. But boy are the facts cool. And boy does it do a good job of using the facts to reveal a mindset, and not just present facts for facts' sake.
Rating: 3.5 Stars (Good).
At the end of the day, it's more of a "here's a bunch of cool facts about the Quadrivium" book than anything else. But boy are the facts cool. And boy does it do a good job of using the facts to reveal a mindset, and not just present facts for facts' sake.
Rating: 3.5 Stars (Good).
silvernfire's review against another edition
3.0
I was both fascinated and frustrated by this book. I found much of it interesting, but each topic went from simple to complex quickly, and I needed to read it more slowly to absorb more. The book is has written explanations on the left-side page and illustrations on the right. Often, the illustrations would've been easier to make out if they'd been printed on larger paper: sometimes the captions were too small for me to read even with reading glasses on. But if the point was to pique my curiosity about the Quadrivium, it succeeded: I'd love to understand this better.
audreylucero's review against another edition
4.0
Loved this book, ties everything together and makes you want to know more