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Interesting! "... commitment to Plato’s philosophy tended to reinforce a Pythagorean orientation towards science. Indeed, the Pythagorean orientation became influential in the Christian West largely as a result of a marriage of Plato’s Timaeus and Holy Scripture. In the Timaeus, Plato described the creation of the universe by a benevolent Demiurge, who impressed a mathematical pattern upon a formless primordial matter
— Nov 22, 2021 05:17AM
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This account was appropriated by Christian apologists, who identified the pattern with the Divine Plan of Creation and repressed the emphasis on a primordial matter. For those who accepted this synthesis, the task of the natural philosopher is to uncover the mathematical pattern upon which the universe is ordered. "
— Nov 22, 2021 05:19AM
Traveller
is on page 16 of 328
Interesting! "... commitment to Plato’s philosophy tended to reinforce a Pythagorean orientation towards science. Indeed, the Pythagorean orientation became influential in the Christian West largely as a result of a marriage of Plato’s Timaeus and Holy Scripture. In the Timaeus, Plato described the creation of the universe by a benevolent Demiurge, who impressed a mathematical pattern upon a formless primordial matter
— Nov 22, 2021 05:16AM
