ThomasIn AS Robert Rosen wrote about non-Euclidean geometry. I'm reading about Pseudospheres now...
19th century mathematicians still have a word to say about rationality, mos geometricus and the limits of objectivity and logic.
#math #mosgeometricus
The below paper by Hanegraaff provides very interesting insights into the advent or #Esotericism in the #renaissance.
In my opinion, the expressed trust in the distance of #Enlightenment to #Helenism is difficult to justify, given the widespread belief in #MosGeometricus, and superior wisdom of #geometers in antiquity.
#magic #Platonism #Paganism
Hanegraaff, Wouter J. "The pagan who came from the East: George Gemistos Plethon and Platonic orientalism." Hermes in the Academy (2009): 33.
@rmathematicus I'm now reading the English Wikipedia article on De Revolutionibus getting aware of the role of Astrology from Pythagoras through the Renaissance to modern times.
I hold that it still lives on as "Geometricism" (my word, you may also use "Idealism" which is related through "mos greometricus") and Reductionism in Physics, even though Gödel should have made it obsolete.
#Math #physics #astrology #mosgeometricus
@wildmandrake @philosophy @PhilosophicalPsychology #MosGeometricus gave rise to rationality in continental philosophy - through Enlightenment and the French Revolution it also influenced the US constitution. From the late 18th century phenomenology got dominant, which, as I see it, in 20th century French philosophy, got folded with rational traditions of epistemology in so mant ways that I perceive much of it as "contemporary politico-philosophical literature".
@thom with respect to the history of #pragmatist #philosophy the connection between #Spinoza and #Tschirnhaus is interesting: lenses and mirrors. From the latter, through #Leibnitz and #Wolff, a path leads to #Kant. #MosGeometricus still divides our world of thought. #HansWernerArndt