Geometry and the Liberal Arts Condition:Good No longer the pitiful orphaned

No longer the pitiful orphaned daughter of the despised Egyptian Whore

With this in mind

which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength

First published in 1975

five very different women come together

Geometry and the Liberal Arts Condition:Good No longer the pitiful orphanedFor an architect like Vitruvius and artists like Leonardo and Drer the fascination of geometry lay in its contribution to solving problems of order, proportion and perspective. With more recent excitement over the 'new mathematics,' we have tended to neglect geometry's lasting appeal to artists, scientists and philosophers; but in this book Professor Pedoe, taking these three great practitioners as his principal examples, redresses the balance and