Sublime

Where the Ionian physicists were interested in the material substance of phenomena, the Pythagoreans focused on the forms, particularly mathematical, that governed and ordered those phenomena.

Pythagoras that all souls—including those of animals—transmigrated to other bodies after death. Because of this, he was a strict vegetarian. Beans, however, were taboo, as they generate flatulence and are like the genitalia.

Same language, mathematics, epicycles, deferents, tables of trigonometric functions, techniques, same general structure, same meticulousness, and same immense, vast vision.

For Descartes, truth was a matter of life and death. He perfectly embodies this singular and powerful aspect of mathematical psychology: his relationship to the truth is physical, almost carnal: I constantly felt a burning desire to learn to distinguish the true from the false, to see my actions for what they were, and to proceed with confidence

Spinoza confere ao método matemático a função de emancipar o espírito de prejuízos e vetos e de o elevar à inteligibilidade do que é racional, já que tem por indubitável que a matemática é expressão do conhecimento claro e distinto, isto é, do que é inteligível, e, portanto, da necessidade imanente ao Universo. A “norma de verdade”, a que se