Schubert, Hermann · Chicago: The Open Court publishing company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 51
ve thinkers of man-kind when the importance of the laws of formal thought in someway or another first dawned on their minds, attributed magic powersto numbers and geometrical figures. We shall devote the following pages to a brief review ofmagic squares, the consideration of which has led many a… … ALBERT DURERS ENGRAVING MELANCHOLY OR THE Genius of the Industrial Science of Mechanics. THE MAGIC SQUARE. 41 know whether twice two might not be five in other spheres of theuniverse. The author of the short article on Magic Squares in the Eng-lish Cyclopaedia (Vol. Ill, p. 415), presumably Prof.…
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