The Pythagoreans considered all mathematical science to be divided into four parts: one half they marked off as concerned with quantity, the other half with magnitude; and each of these they posited as twofold. A quantity can be considered in regard to its character by itself or in its relation to another quantity, magnitudes as […]
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‘At the core of the treatise there was one idea: God is light… The universe, born of an irradiance, a downward spilling burst of luminosity and the light emanating from the primal Being established every created being in an immutable place. But it united all beings, linking them with love, flooding the entire world, establishing […]