Earle Jones <earle.jones@comcast.net> wrote:
> And a note to you mathematicians out there:
>
> "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those
> who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the
> mathematicians have made a covenant with the Devil to darken the
> spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell ..."
>
> --St. Augustine
Mathematician here means astrologer,
and Augustine didn't aprove of that.
What you would call a mathematician nowadays
would be a philosopher to Augustine,
and he did have a high opinion of those,
Jan
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