Mathematics · thesis 7>1

Thesis 7>1

Latin

Mathematicae non sunt uerae scientiae.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23613

English

The mathematical disciplines are not true sciences.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:23666; 'disciplines' used for 'mathematicae' to vary from Farmer's wording.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:23666; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 7>, mathematical conclusions) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• Ernst Cassirer, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: A Study in the History of Renaissance Ideas (1942)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 7>2 Si foelicitas sit in speculatiua perfectione, mathematicae non faciunt ad foelicitatem.
• 7>3 Mathematicae scientiae non sunt propter se, sed ut uia ad alias scientias quaerendae.
• 7>4 Sicut subiecta mathematicorum, si absolute accipiantur, intellectum nihil perficiunt, ita si ut imagines accipiantur superiorum, immediate n
• 7>5 Sicut dictum Aristotelis de antiquis, dicentis quod ideo errarunt in physica contemplatione, quia mathematice_res physicas tractarunt, uerum