Math for Mystics - From the Fibonacci Sequence to Luna’s Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry

Renna Shesso 

Weiser Books | 2007 | 210 páginas | rar - pdf | 2,6 Mb

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Much of math history comes to us from early astrologers who needed to be able to describe and record what they saw in the night sky. Whether you were the king's court astrologer or a farmer marking the best time for planting, timekeeping and numbers really mattered. Mistake a numerical pattern of petals and you could be poisoned. Lose the rhythm of a sacred dance or the meter of a ritually told story and the intricately woven threads that hold life together were spoiled. Ignore the celestial clock of equinoxes and solstices, and you'd risk being caught short of food for the winter.
Shesso's friendly tone and clear grasp of the information make the math "go down easy" in this marvelous book

ContentsIntroduction: “Math?! Why?” vII
Chapter 0 The Circle of Creation 1
Chapter 1 Counting 5
Chapter 2 The Moon 13
Chapter 3 Measurements 21
Chapter 4 The Days of the Week 25
Chapter 5 The Magical Squares 47
Chapter 6 The Knight’s Tour and Templar Codes? 69
Chapter 7 Shapes and Numbers Meditation 83
Chapter 8 Pythagoras 95
Chapter 9 Fibonacci, the Golden Ratio, and the Pentacle 101
Chapter 10 Venus’ Pentacle 115
Chapter 11 The Geometric Solids 123
Chapter 12 Individual Numbers 129
Chapter 13 A Tale in Which Gods Do Math 159
Chapter 14 Summing Up 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 175
Index 183