
Pythagorean Palaces: Mathemagicians, number-forms, and Architectura Imaginalis with Emily Moyer
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The Pythagoreans Related Numbers With Different Archetypes
Pythagoreans related numbers with different archetypes or monadic forms, and they also related numbers with power. The Christian position that emerged at the beginning of the Renaissance maintains that humans are searching for the definition of invisible immeasurable things. If this position were true, would acknowledge that religion, technology, science, and art share the idea that mathematical forms are an acceptable way to represent reality. A tetrahedron with unlimited faces could symbolize the Trinity while the paraboloid is generated by a straight line that slides along the two others.
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