The Pythagorean idea that number is the key to understanding reality inspired Neoplatonist philosophers in the fourth and fifth centuries to develop theories in physics and metaphysics based on mathematical models. The theories produced by this revived interest in Pythagoreanism were to become influential in medieval and early modern philosophy, and this book makes use of some newly-discovered evidence to examine for the first time the development of those theories.
| ISBN: | 9780198239130 |
| Publication date: | 6th December 1990 |
| Author: | Dominic J Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland OMeara |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Clarendon Paperbacks |
| Genres: |
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of science |