Mathematics · thesis 7>9

Thesis 7>9

Latin

Per arithmeticam non materialem, sed formalem, habetur optima uia ad prophetiam naturalem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23724

Through arithmetic taken not materially but formally, one has the best road to natural prophecy.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:23776; 'the best road' varies Farmer's 'the optimal way'.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:23776; awaiting human check

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

Jean-Marc Mandosio, Beyond Pico della Mirandola: John Dee's formal numbers and real cabala (2012)

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

11>57 Per praecedentem conclusionem potest intelligens in arithmetica formali intelligere quod operari per scemamphoras est proprium rationalis na
3>26 Ex praecedentibus conclusionibus potest intelligi qui sit formalis numerus, quem dixit Pythagoras esse principium omnium rerum.
3>7 Sicut deus est simpliciter cognitio totius esse, ita intellectus est diffinitio
5>5 Empedocles per spheram intelligibilem a Venere contentam, nihil aliud intelligit quam mundum archetipum ab ordine intra se manentis primae p
9>23 Quilibet numerus praeter ternarium et denarium sunt materiales / in magia; isti formales sunt, et in magica arithmetica sunt numeri numeroru