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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.

Decline of the West, Chapter II: The Meaning of Numbers
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