Index
Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed. Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.
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A
a^3, p89
a^n, p89
Abbasid period, p72
abstruse, p85
abyss, p65
Acropolis building, p78
Aeschylus, God idea of, p81
aether, p69
aggregate, p77, and see Theory of Aggregates, p84,and see groups, p89, sets, p89, aggregate (new number), p75
Ahmes, p58
Al-Khwarizmi, p72
Alexandrine mathematic, p63
algebra, p71, and see algebra-astronomy (of the Babylonian culture) , p63
alien, p53
Alsidzshi, p72 [citation not found]
Anaximander, p64
Antioch, p72
Apollonius, p69
arabesque, p72
Arabian Culture, p71, p72 and see Arabian schools (early), p71, and see Arabian-Islamic thinkers (mathematics), p63;
and see Arabian indeterminateness and Magian mathematics, p72
Arameans, p63
archaic style, p57
Archimedes, p59, quadrature of the parabola, p69, treatise on the grains of sand, p69, and exhaustion method, p69
Archytas, p66
Aristarchus, p68, and see Aristarchian system, p68
Attica, statuary, p71
Ausdehnungslehre (Grassman), p70
Autumnal cities, p79
B
Bach, p62
Baghdad 9th & 10th centuries intellects, p73
Baroque, decorative elements, p87, and see Renaissance into Baroque, p87 and scrollwork of Baroque, p87, mature Baroque, p87
becoming, 53
Beethoven, p81, and see his quartets, p81
being, p53
Bernini, p87
bounding function, p69
bow instruments, p62
Bruno, p56
Buddha, Nirvana of, p81
Byzantium Empire, p72
C
Caliphate (and Diocletian’s transformation), p72
canon of the statue, p58
Cardanus, p75
cartouches, of Baroque p87
cathedrals (and infinity), p68
Cauchy, p73, and see Cauchy’s…limit idea, p86
Chaldean-Persian school (and Alexandrine astronomy) p68
Chaldean circle division, p63
chaos, p63
Charlemagne (and Roman Empire), p72
Christianity, p72
chromatic, p85
Classical Culture, p72
co-ordinates, p69
Constantinian high relief, p72
continuum, p66, p77
convergence in infinite series, p85
Copernicus, p68
cosmos, p63
Ctesiphon, p63
cupola, p71
Cusanus, p69
D
D’Alembert, p66
Dante, God idea of, p81 and see his Divina Comedia, p85
de Vinci (Leonardo), p69
Death, p54
Dedekind number bodes, p90 and see his “cut”, p77
definite integral, p75
deism, p66
delimitation, p80
Desargues, p75
Descartes (Cartesian coordinates), p61and analysis of the infinite, p66
differential equations, p89,
differential geometry, p75,
Differential principle, p86
Diocletian, p72
Diophantus, p63, and influence of Indian, early Arab, p71
Dipylon pottery, p73
Direction, p54
Doric order, p58,
Doric temples, p58
draughtsmen, p67
Dresden Zwinger, p87
Duns Scotus, p72
E
ecliptic co-ordinate system (of Babylonian astronomy), p63
Eddas, p88
Edessa, p63
Egyptian temple style, p58, cubic style, p69, mathematics, p63, water control, p58, administration, p58 calendar, p58, building techniques, p58
Eratosthenes, p69
Euclidean geometry, p59, see Introduction page 42, and see congruence theorem of, p84,
Eudoxus, p66, p69
Euler, p78, and see his treated the differentials as zero, p86
extension, p56
extension world, p80
F
Faust II, p70
Faustian, p68
Fermat, p69 and see his theorem, p76
figure (and northern contrapuntist), p82
fugue, p61
function, p72, p75, functions into infinite series, p75, Infinite series & Newton's binomial, p75, angular functions p74, congruence by angular functions,
p85, periodic functions p74, transformation of elliptic & integrals into multiply periodic functions (Abel, Gauss), p85
G
Gallileo, p81
Gauss, p59, and see Gauss (& Euclidean geometry, axiom of parallels), p88
gems, art of the, p84
general integral, p75
geometrica, p57
Gluck, p78
Goethe, “mothers”, p70
Gothic cathedrals, p58 and see wall statuary of German cathedrals, p73
Gothic condition, p73
Goths, conquering, p88,
Gundisapora, p63
H
hard set, p58
harmony, p63 and see Pythagorean, origins in music, p63
Hayden, p78
Helmholtz, p64
higher history, p55
History, p55
homogenous, p77, p89
Hypsicles, p63
I
illimitable, p75
impalpable, p79
Indian soul (and zero), p66
Indian trigonometry, p84
inexorable, p80
Infinitesimal Calculus, p59
inscribed rectangles, p69
irrational numbers, p65
J
Jansenists, p66
Justinian I, p81
K
Kant, sum of human knowledge, p59
Kepler, p71
key, p85
Klein, p90
L
Lagrange, p78
Laplace, p78
Leibnitz see Introduction p42; and the divine principle, p70, and Calculus, p70, and analysis situ, p70
Leochares, p90
Leucippus, p77
Life, p54
linear continuum, p77
loci, p69
logarithm, p75, p88
Lysippus, p90
M
Magian, p71, and see Arabian culture, p72
magnitudes, p66
Mandaeanism, p72
Manichaeism, p72
Manifold of points p74, “manifolds” of n p82, and see multi-dimensional space,p88
mathematical images, p89
mathematical number, p57
mechanical demarcation, p57
Michelangelo (and Early Baroque), p87
Moorish mosques, p80
mosaic, p71
Mozart, p78
N
Nature, p55
Neo-Platonism, p72
Newton, religious nature p71, Infinite series & Newton's binomial, p75
nexus, p84
non-Archimedean number (number), p65
Non-Euclidean geometry, p67
nonent, p64
Numbers, p67, imaginary p75, p77 complex numbers, p75, p77; real numbers, p77, irrationals, p77, Napierian base e p74, hypercomplex, p89
number surfaces, p77
O
orchestra, modern p62, see four human voices, p62
Oresme, p67
P
paradigm, p90
parallel axiom, p83
Parthenon sculptures, p81, and see Parthenon, p72
Pascal see Introduction page 42
Pergumum, alter of p85
Persian Seleucia on Tigris, p68
Persian-Babylonian schools, p63
perspective, p61
phrasing, p85
pi (number), p65
pietist, p66
Plato see Introduction page 9
Plotinus, p56; see God idea of, p81, see Plotinus and early Magian Culture, p72
Polis, p83
polyhedron, regular, page 81
polyphony, p63
Present, p54
proper, p53
pyramid temples, dimensions, p58
Pythagoreans, secret doctrines of, p66, Pythagoras (theorem), p61, Pythagoreans reforms, p83
Q
quadratures, p69, and see quadrature of the parabola , p69
quaternions of the calculus of vectors, p89
R
Rembrandt, infinity of, p81
Renaissance mathematics (and Classical tendency) p71
Revennate mosaics, p72
Riemann, p61, and see Riemann’s integral, p69, and Riemann (symbolism of the 2 planes) p71
Rococo of Dresden. Paris, Vienna, p87
Romanesque construction & ornament, p58
Romano-Florentine colonnading & storying, p87
S
sarcophagi relief, p58
Sassanid Empire, p72
second and third powers, p66
Serenus, p63
Sesostris, p81
Seleucus, p68
Soul, p54
space representation, p58 and see space commanding organ, p62
stereometry, p64, and see stereometric, p77
style of knowing, p60
subtilizing, p89
Syriac, p63
T
technics, world embracing spatial energy of modern, p81
Tema con Variazioni (18th century orchestral form), p84
theology of Counter Reformation, p66
thoroughbass, p61
Timaeus, p66
tone colour and tone effects , p62
totality, p89
transformations of groups, p84
transvalued, p71
U
unidimensional, p77
V
Vieta ,p71 and algebraic notation, p71
Vignola, early Baroque, p87
Vikings, conquering, p88
vivify, p61
Voltaire, p66
W
waking-consciousness, p54
Weierstrass, p62
World, p54
X
x + yi, p77
Y
Z
Zenodorus, p63
