Mathematics · thesis 7>11

Thesis 7>11

Latin

Per numeros habetur uia ad omnis scibilis inuestigationem et in/tellectionem; ad cuius conclusionis uerificationem polliceor me ad infrascriptas lxxiiii. questiones per uiam numerorum responsurum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23732; 1486 print folio <26r/26v>

The copy-text's OCR gives the numeral as 'xxiii.' (23); corrected here to 'lxxiiii.' (74), since Farmer's own English renders it 'seventy-four questions' (farmer1998:23784) and the list that follows (7a>1-7a>74) runs to seventy-four items.

English

Numbers supply a road to the investigation and understanding of everything knowable; to prove this conclusion I undertake to answer the seventy-four questions written below by the way of numbers.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:23784; restructured to vary from Farmer's wording.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:23784; awaiting human check; re-rendered 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-FIX (D-13)

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

Discussed in

• Jean-Marc Mandosio, Beyond Pico della Mirandola: John Dee's formal numbers and real cabala (2012)
• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>2 Quicquid dicant alii cabaliste, ego partem speculatiuam cabalae quadruplicem diuiderem, conrespondenter quadruplici partition: philosophiae
• 11>72 Sicut uera astrologia docet nos legere in libro dei, ita Cabala docet nos legere in libro legis.
• 3>52 Eadem est scientia de deo, homine, et materia prima, et qui de uno scientiam habuerit, habebit et de reliquis, seruata proportione extremi a
• 3>54 Ad probandum primam materiam esse, magis certificat uel uia numerorum, uel uia catholicae philosophiae, quam ulla ratio physica in qua sensu
• 3>55 Qui ordinem hebraicae linguae profunde et radicaliter tenuerit, atque illum proportionabiliter in scientiis seruare nouerit, cuiuscunque sci
• 3>70 Cum tres fuerint qui dicerent omnia esse unum: Zenophanes, Parmenides, et Melissus, uidebit qui diligenter eorum dicta perscrutabitur, Zenop
• 5>15 Per extremorum et medii rationem cognoscere possumus conuenienter uniuersi gradus sic in quinque posse diuidi: In super ens, uere ens, non u
• 7a>74 Vtrum in caelo sint descripta et significata omnia cuilibet scienti legere.