Zahl, Proportion und Harmonie im Denken der Renaissance

Arguments central to antique and late antique philosophy and theory of mathematics (especially Proclus and Boethius) as they relate to the further development of the communis mathematica scientia (koinê mathêmatikê epistêmê) of Plato’s Politeia and its establishment in a highly developed scientific model are discussed, with emphasis on a detailed analysis of the understanding of music within this context, thereby spanning an arch from late antique positions up to those of the Renaissance in order to elucidate how the understanding of music (and the other quadrivial disciplines) was transformed from a metaphysical-ontological (and also theological) to an ever more logical-rhetorical position. In particular, a comparison of the approaches of Nicholas of Cusa and Marsilio Ficino serves to mark the boundaries that prepared the ground for this transformation

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