Celestial Tapestry
The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics
Nicholas Mee
Reviews and Awards
"Feels like a cabinet of curiosities of the mind, with interesting things linking maths and the the world, particularly the arts... You can always tell if a book is good if you can't wait to get back to it. That was definitely the case here. A little gem." - Brian Clegg, Popular Science
"Celestial Tapestry is an invaluable overview of what we know about art and science, and the myriad great minds throughout history that wove our knowledge. Dr. Mee's strength is bringing the people of the past alive, and the history of art and science is brilliantly condensed here into a book that summarises the last two thousand years of human development." - Mark Sheeky, The Barracks Trust Award Winner
"The book comes across as a kind of tapestry collection, with one item leading onto the next in a successive association of ideas and threads woven together it is quite some journey through the author's mind and reading, bringing out some intriguing connections and little-known items as well as recontextualising many great creative discoveries." - Paradigm Explorer
"In his Celestial Tapestry, Nicholas Mee has woven for us a richly illustrated warp and weft of mathematical ideas, displayed in a rich variety of pictorial forms. He also loves storytelling - the tapestry takes centuries to take shape, though the retelling of it is at a veritable whirlwind of a pace. Symmetry, combinatorics, spirals, labyrinths and the construction of the cosmos all appear in their ancient, Islamic and western episodes." - Professor Tom McLeish, University of York
"Nicholas Mee skilfully weaves together art, science, history and myth to show us the intricate and enchanting patterns that the universe provides and that we as humans discover and celebrate. An engrossing and highly readable tour through both time and space." - Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
""In this spiritual must-read, Nicholas Mee guides you through some of the most enchanting and intricate patterns in the Universe using art, science, history and myth."" - Soul & Spirit
