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Nicomachus, born in Jerash around 60 and died in 120, was a male citizen of Ancient Rome. He worked as a mathematician, musicologist, music theorist, and philosopher during the Roman Empire. Writing in Ancient Greek, he was influenced by Aristotle and focused on the field of philosophy.
His literary output includes eighteen works, such as the *Manual of Harmonics* and *Nikomachou Gerasinou Arithmētikēs biblia dyo*. Other notable texts include *Specimen arithmeticae Nicomacheae e duobus codicibus mss* and *Antiquae musicae auctores septem*. He is also cited in the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Specimen arithmeticae Nicomacheae e duobus codicibus mss
- Antiquae musicae auctores septem
- Nicomachus of Gerasa, Manual of Harmonics
- Nikomachou Gerasinou Arithmētikēs biblia dyo
- Tābit B. Qurra's arabische übersetzung der Arithmētikē eisagōgē des Nikomachos Von Gerasa zum ersten Mal hrsg. von Wilhelm Kutsch
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Recent publications · Crossref
1 total works indexed
- Introduction to Arithmetic
· 1926 · cited 21x
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Quotes
- “Two other sciences in the same way will accurately treat of 'size': geometry, the part that abides and is at rest, [and] astronomy, that which moves and revolves.”
- “If geometry exists, arithmetic must also needs be implied... But on the contrary 3, 4, and the rest might be 5 without the figures existing to which they give names. Hence arithmetic abolishes geometry along with itself, but is not abolished by it, and while it is implied by geometry, it does not itself imply geometry.”
- “Scientific number, being set over such things as these, should be harmoniously constituted, in accordance with itself; not by any other but by itself.”
- “Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out of opposites...”
- “Number is limited multitude or a combination of units or a flow of quantity made up of units; and the first division of number is even and odd.”
- “The even is that which can be divided into two equal parts without a unit intervening in the middle; and the odd is that which cannot...”
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Key facts
- Philosopher.name
- Nicomachus of Gerasa
- Philosopher.image
- Plato-nicomachus.jpg
- Philosopher.caption
- Plato (left) and Nicomachus (right), as inventors of music, from a 12th-century manuscript
- Philosopher.birth_place
- Gerasa, Roman Syria
- Philosopher.notable_works
- Introduction to Arithmetic Manual of Harmonics
- Philosopher.era
- Ancient Roman philosophy
- Philosopher.school_tradition
- Neopythagoreanism
- Philosopher.main_interests
- Arithmetic, Music
- Philosopher.notable_ideas
- Multiplication tables
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Place of birth
- Jerash
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- Gerosinus Nicomachus. Line engraving by D. Cunego, 1785, aft Wellcome V0004298.jpg
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 0060-00-00
- date of death
- 0120-00-00
- Commons category
- Nicomachus
- time period
- Roman Empire
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- influenced by
- Aristotle
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Νικόμαχος Γερασηνός
- birth name
- Νικόμαχος
- Commons Creator page
- Nicomachus
- P13311
- Katherine LaNasa
Sources (1)
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