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The six bestselling Wooden Books dealing with the numerical Liberal Arts are here bound in one
Produkt Quadrivium - The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music and Cosmology (Lundy Miranda)(Pevná vazba) označuje EAN kód 9781907155048.
The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and cosmology expresses number in
The six bestselling Wooden Books dealing with the numerical Liberal Arts are here bound in one
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Discover seven of the world's greatest composers in this stunning introduction to classical music by piano maestro and bestselling author James
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