“I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret Magic of numbers.”
Section 12
Religio Medici (1643), Part I
“When a man counts one, two, three, he is not only doing mathematics, he is on the path to the mysticism of numbers in Pythagoras and Vitruvius and Kepler, to the Trinity and the signs of the Zodiac.”
"The Reach of Imagination" (1967)
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