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Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic
The Idea of Stoicheia Through the Medieval Mediterranean
Taschenbuch von Juan Acevedo
Sprache: Englisch

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Juan Acevedo embarks on a semantic journey to track the origin and adventures of the Greek term stoicheion, which for at least eighteen centuries, from Pythagoras to Fibonacci, simultaneously meant "element", "letter", and "numeral". Focusing on this triple meaning and on how it was translated and interpreted in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic - especially in key texts of the Abrahamic faiths- a metaphysical study takes shape. With touches of alchemy and theology, it reveals how a shared fundamental alphanumeric cosmology underlay many basic paradigms of science and faith around the Mediterranean until the advent of the Indo-Arabic numerals broke the "marriage" of letter and numeral. Careful readings of Plato, Philolaos, Nicomachus and Philo, of Genesis and the Sefer Yetsira, of the Qur'an, the Ikhwan al-Safa', and Ibn 'Arabi are all woven together into a synthesis full of implications for many disciplines.
Juan Acevedo embarks on a semantic journey to track the origin and adventures of the Greek term stoicheion, which for at least eighteen centuries, from Pythagoras to Fibonacci, simultaneously meant "element", "letter", and "numeral". Focusing on this triple meaning and on how it was translated and interpreted in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic - especially in key texts of the Abrahamic faiths- a metaphysical study takes shape. With touches of alchemy and theology, it reveals how a shared fundamental alphanumeric cosmology underlay many basic paradigms of science and faith around the Mediterranean until the advent of the Indo-Arabic numerals broke the "marriage" of letter and numeral. Careful readings of Plato, Philolaos, Nicomachus and Philo, of Genesis and the Sefer Yetsira, of the Qur'an, the Ikhwan al-Safa', and Ibn 'Arabi are all woven together into a synthesis full of implications for many disciplines.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XXVI
325 S.
ISBN-13: 9783161592454
ISBN-10: 316159245X
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Acevedo, Juan
Hersteller: Mohr Siebeck
Maße: 233 x 161 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Juan Acevedo
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,532 kg
Artikel-ID: 118005164
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: XXVI
325 S.
ISBN-13: 9783161592454
ISBN-10: 316159245X
Sprache: Englisch
Autor: Acevedo, Juan
Hersteller: Mohr Siebeck
Maße: 233 x 161 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Juan Acevedo
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,532 kg
Artikel-ID: 118005164
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