Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
ISBN-10
0801443962
ISBN-13
9780801443961
Category
Art
Pages
388
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier

Description

This is an examination of the unified concepts of harmony, form, proportion, and order that were attributed to Pythagoras in the millennium after his death and the important developments to which they led in art, architecture, astronomy, mathematics, music, medicine, morals, religion, and alchemy.

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