Mathematics · thesis 7>3

Thesis 7>3

Latin

Mathematicae scientiae non sunt propter se, sed ut uia ad alias scientias quaerendae.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23620

English

The mathematical sciences are to be pursued not for their own sake, but as a pathway toward the pursuit of other sciences.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:23673. Recast as a gerundive ('are to be pursued... as a pathway toward') to render 'quaerendae' and vary the wording.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:23673; 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>1 Mathematicae non sunt uerae scientiae.
• 7>2 Si foelicitas sit in speculatiua perfectione, mathematicae non faciunt ad foelicitatem.
• 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