Clifford Low

“A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“3. Plato, Timaeus 56c–57c. Plato’s devotion to mathematics is well-known, and this influence on Ficino is discussed below. Lindberg points out that, for Plato, “the cosmos is essentially mathematical.” Plato considered, “not that the elements have triangular shapes, but that the elements ultimately are triangular shapes.” The transformation of the elements is “the dissolution and recombination of triangles.” For Plato, “‘mathematical objects are closer to the Forms than physical [objects are]”
― Mary Quinlan-McGrath, Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance

“But of the bodies contained in the world, some imitate intellect, and revolve in a circle; but others soul, and are moved in a right line. And of those which are moved in a right line, fire and air, are impelled upwards, but water and earth downwards: but of those which revolve in a circle, the inerratic sphere commences its motion from the east, but the seven planets are carried in their orbits from the west.”
― Proclus, Works of Proclus

“For Aristotle, it was the role of the Sun to bring about the fusion of the Forms with Matter.51”
― Mary Quinlan-McGrath, Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance