Math for Mystics : From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna''s Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry
معرفی کتاب «Math for Mystics : From the Fibonacci sequence to Luna''s Labyrinth to the Golden Section and Other Secrets of Sacred Geometry» نوشتهٔ Renna Shesso; TotalBoox,; TBX، منتشرشده توسط نشر Red Wheel Weiser در سال 2007. این کتاب در فرمت epub، زبان انگلیسی ارائه شده است.
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. BONUS: This book has over 100 illustrations! Click on the Google Preview link to get a glimpse. Excerpt from Math for Mystics : Its our collective malaise: Post-Traumatic Math Disorder. Yet despite how we personally feel about mathematics, our distant ancestors willingly used numbers as pathways into the great patterns of Nature, avenues to understanding the Universe and their own place in it. Many ancient cultures had specific gods and goddesses they credited with inventing mathematical skills. With the aid of divine inspiration and assistance, humans nourished this numerical invention, continually pushing their skills and seeking greater clarity of expression. Our starting point may seem like a Zero. But for now, before looking at numbers and math, lets simply see it as a circle. No matter what our spiritual practice, we each live within the circle of creation, each within the circlethe cohesivenessof our own form... From John Michael Greer, Grand Archdruid, Ancient Order of Druids in America and author of The Druidry Handbook : As thoughtful as it is readable, Renna Shessos Math for Mystics is the book I wish I had when I first started trying to make sense of the mathematics that underlie so much of modern magic and traditional occult lore. Not the least of its virtues is the way it makes magical number theory accessible even to those who think they dont like or cant handle math. It provides a first-rate introduction to a fairly neglected branch of magical lore.
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Renna Shesso's friendly tone, delightful "math lore," meticulous research, and clear information makes math easy to understand. This marvelous book begins with the simplest lunary and planetary math and then tackles the most enigmatic of numerical esoterica such as Platonic Solids, the Golden Section, Luna's Labyrinth, and Benjamin Franklin's favorite way to pass the time, "Magical Squares," akin to the 17th century Sudoku. For anyone who tried to understand the Fibonacci Sequence of numbers from Dan Brown's (son of a mathematician) The DaVinci Code, this book is for you! Much of what we know as math comes to us directly from early astronomer magi who needed to be able to describe and record what they saw in the night sky. Everyone needed math: 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 poison yourself. 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.