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mathematical number:
Possess the idea of mechanical demarcation, a sign of the completed demarcation, the essence of everything actual and perceived. Nature is number, intuitive & spiritual. This essence (the capacity to think practically in figures) goes beyond any theory of mathematics (the calculus of Leibniz) which a culture develops.
mechanical demarcation: * see Endnote 3
words and number notation, fundamentally tools to limit and control sense impressions of the actual, of nature.
archaic style:* see Endnote 4
in history and archaeology, the earliest phases of a culture; most frequently used by art historians to denote the period of artistic development in Greece from about 650 to 480 BC, the date of the Persian sack of Athens.
geometrical: * see Endnote 5
style of ancient Greek art, primarily of vase painting, began about 900 BC, represents the last purely Mycenaean-Greek art form that originated before the influx of foreign inspiration of 800 BC. Athens was its centre, and the growing moneyed population of new Greek cities was its market.