Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mental discipline; learning or science in general, especially mathematics.
- noun [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of clerid beetles, erected by Waterhouse in 1877, having a long antennal club and the third tarsal joint not bilobed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Learning; especially, mathematics.
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- noun mental calculation or discipline;
learning ,science
Etymologies
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Examples
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The studioli ornament evoked divine mystery, embodying the essence of Cusa's philosophy by the mathesis of perspective and the artisan's cunning wisdom.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Of special importance in this initial description is the ˜for us™ and the identification of learning (mathesis) with recollection.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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Descartes, and Leibniz gave this tradition a rationalist twist centered on the powers of human reason; it became the project of a universal framework of exact categories and ideas, a mathesis universalis.
The Unity of Science Cat, Jordi 2007
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But Paul Yoder, also drawing on contemporary sciences which have posed a challenge to the classical mathesis, makes a very different argument.
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Father F. Grimaldi wrote an impressive work on the nature of lumen, color, and the rainbow (Physico - mathesis de lumine, coloribus, et iride), published in
OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968
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Here it may be noted that Ars means "text-book", as does the Greek word techen; disciplina is the translation of the Greek mathesis or mathemata, and stood in a narrower sense for the mathematical sciences.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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For there is no God ne none worshipping here, ne no providence in the world, but fortune only, of engendrure and hap, doth all, like as I have found expertly of myself, which was informed in the discipline of mathesis more than many others.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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"Psychotherapy" is a masterpiece, but his psychic equation of _causative_ and _purposive_, with all his mathesis, not only remains unsolved, but leads to confusion, from the false light shed on the unknown quantity, and his failure to indicate the gnosis; the demarcation between automatism and purposive Intelligence.
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In the mind of every man who has passed much of his life in successful action, there is a certain, if we may so say, untaught mathesis, -- but especially among those who have been bred to the art of war.
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In the mind of every man who has passed much of his life in successful action, there is a certain, if we may so say, untaught mathesis, -- but especially among those who have been bred to the art of war.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
pavonine commented on the word mathesis
learning, mental discipline, especially in mathematics
June 8, 2008