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  • Grosseteste found anticipations of this cosmological system in pagan myth, speculating, for example that “Cybele” was etymologically derived from cubus and symbolized solidity.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

  • If he did not know the rule by which Fiore's questions had been answered (that of the _cosa_ and the _cubus_ equal to the _numerus_), how could he solve these questions which he now sent, seeing that certain of them involved operations much more complicated than that of the rule above written?

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • It had been told to Messer Hieronimo that Fiore's thirty questions had led up to a case of the _cosa_ and the _cubus_ equal to the _numerus_, and that

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • a gentle reproach anent his guest's reticence in the matter of the rule of the _cosa_ and the _cubus_ equal to the _numerus_.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • "I well remember when I was at your house in Milan, that you told me you had never tried to discover the rule of the _cosa_ and the _cubus_ equal to the

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

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