TY - BOOK ID - 81275511 TI - Alphanumeric cosmology from Greek into Arabic : the idea of Stoicheia through the medieval Mediterranean PY - 2020 SN - 316159245X 9783161592454 PB - Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, DB - UniCat KW - Cosmologie KW - Stoicheîon (le mot grec) KW - Nombres KW - Arithmétique KW - Antiquité KW - Moyen âge KW - Stoicheion (The Greek word) KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Stoicheîon (le mot grec) KW - Arithmétique KW - Antiquité KW - Moyen âge KW - Cosmologie. KW - Nombres. KW - Arithmétique. KW - Antiquité. KW - Moyen âge. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:81275511 AB - Juan Acevedo embarks on a semantic journey to track the origin and adventures of the Greek term stoicheion, which for at least eighteen centuries, from Pythagoras to Fibonacci, simultaneously meant element , letter , and numeral . Focusing on this triple meaning and on how it was translated and interpreted in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic - especially in key texts of the Abrahamic faiths- a metaphysical study takes shape. With touches of alchemy and theology, it reveals how a shared fundamental alphanumeric cosmology underlay many basic paradigms of science and faith around the Mediterranean until the advent of the Indo-Arabic numerals broke the marriage of letter and numeral. Careful readings of Plato, Philolaos, Nicomachus and Philo, of Genesis and the Sefer Yetsira, of the Qur'an, the Ikhwan al-Safa', and Ibn 'Arabi are all woven together into a synthesis full of implications for many disciplines. ER -