“Which of us has, at this day, the ability to discover those true and vivific numbers whereby the elements are united and bound to one another?”

— Robert Fludd

Robert Fludd, cited in: Waite (1887, p. 291); On arithmetic

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British mathematician and astrologer 1574–1637

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