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HoP 361 - The Measure of All Things - Renaissance Mathematics and Art

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Pythagoreanism in the Visual Arts

Pythagoreanism ran deep in renaissance humanism and platonism. It manifested in everything from the circular design of those utopian cities to ficino's excitement that plato died on his own birthday. The mathematician baldi went so far as to compose a lengthy biography of pythagoras, whom he called the prince of italian philosophy - inferior to god, but superior to all other men.

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