The Power of Numbers

About this book

The second book opens with a claim that startled its own century: without mathematics there is nothing to be found in this art. The world, says Agrippa, is built by number, weight and measure — and whoever knows numbers knows the plan of the Creator. This beautifully illustrated notebook is the first of Book II in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains Book II, chapters 1–9: the necessity of the mathematical sciences and the wonders they alone can work — the moving statues of Daedalus, mirrors that show distant armies, the iron idol hanging above lodestones — and then the numbers themselves, one by one: the one, the two, the three, the four, the five and the six, each with its scale table from the original edition.

What is inside

• 9 complete chapters of Agrippa's text, nothing shortened
• every chapter in four parts: In Agrippa's words · In plain words · Terms (with the Latin) · Historical note — where the idea comes from and what modern science says
• 9 original illustrations in an antique archival style, plus the original 1533 scale tables
• 2 printable charts: the numbers from one to six through the four storeys of the world, and the five "middle sciences" of Renaissance magic
• foreword, closing words and a 54-term glossary

Who it is for

Readers of Hermeticism, alchemy, Renaissance history, number symbolism and the Western esoteric tradition who want the original text made readable — and honestly explained.

About the series

1 The Power of Numbers · 2 The Sacred Numbers · 3 Marks and the Tables of the Planets · 4 Harmony and the Measure of Man · 5 Observations of the Heavens · 6 Images, Talismans and Characters · 7 The Soul of the World. Each notebook sold separately.

A historical text, not a manual.