Cosmographia Arithmetica: The World, Its Parts, and Medieval Numerology
Relano, Fransesc
Cosmographia Arithmetica: The World, Its Parts, and Medieval Numerology - 2003.
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People everywhere have always been fascinated with numbers and their combinations. The present essay takes the Western world in the Middle Ages and examines the influence numerology exerted on cosmography. It then focuses on how medieval numerology adapted and was transformed as a result of changing geographical perceptions during the Renaissance. The result was a gradual erosion in the prescriptive value of its analogical principles in the representation of the world on paper.
Cosmographia Arithmetica: The World, Its Parts, and Medieval Numerology - 2003.
51
People everywhere have always been fascinated with numbers and their combinations. The present essay takes the Western world in the Middle Ages and examines the influence numerology exerted on cosmography. It then focuses on how medieval numerology adapted and was transformed as a result of changing geographical perceptions during the Renaissance. The result was a gradual erosion in the prescriptive value of its analogical principles in the representation of the world on paper.
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