>Dear list members
>This is my first message to the list. I'm a Greek teacher of mathematics
>and I'm interested in Arithmology.
>As you know Christianity is well connected with numbers like 666, 153
>and others. So if someone can give me information about ideas, people,
>topics, bibliography about this things during medieval, I would be very
>grateful to him or her.
>Between others I'm inetrested about Athanas Kircher, bisop of Rome,
>around 1600, who wrote about magic squares and connected them with
>planets.
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Leonidas Tourlas
>Teacher of Methematics
>Athens, Gr
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For Kircher, there is much fascinating material in Paula Findlen's
*Possessing Nature* (Univ. of California Press, 1994).
laura
Laura Smoller
Department of History
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 South University Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72204-1099
tel 501-569-8389
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