Meditation, Invention, and Designing Thought in the Augustinian Middle Ages

A fresh perspective on how early scholars perceived the cosmos and the nature of knowledge through a tour—de—force study of the central role geometry played in medieval creativity.


Geometry, rhetoric and creativity were intricately linked in medieval thought. Early thinkers integrated mathematical and linguistic frameworks in their attempts to understand both divine and human creation with geometry providing the means through which these scholars tackled everything from theological speculati...