“Das mathematische Denken vervielfältigt sich selbst”. (Novalis).

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“… müsste man erstmal definieren.

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Source: Bibliothek Schlag, Zürich
Anton Räderscheidt, Maler mit Modell, 100 x 80cm, 1928
Collection of Musée d’Art moderne de la Vile de Paris

Primitive rituals, … [argues] Mumford, were “basic to the whole development of human culture”; they stabilized Paleolithic man through repetitive acts that produced predictable effects. Early man was first a collector and later a hunter; from animals he learned how to gather food before discovering how to kill for it. Kings created the prototype machines from people: they organized manpower to build monuments and wage war. Source: Time Magazine, Friday, Jun. 09, 1967

Technology throws light upon mental conceptions.
“intervals of gradualness.”
Quantity into quality.
Or sweetness: where there is more light than logic.
A full number of things in a very few words.
(Louis Zukofsy: A acht)

Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 33

Paracelsus`Book of Bad and Good Fortune:
The sun shines upon all of us equally
With its luck. The summer comes
To all of us equally
With its luck. Our love is unequal
(Louis Zukofsky: A zwölg)

– A telegraph?
– Every word weighs.
– And the the telephone teaches?
– Also. What we say
Here is heard there.(Zukofsky, A 12)

Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 5.

If it helps, diffract crystals and tracers.
Rabbi S said:
– You can learn from everything.
What man has made
Has also something to teach us.
His chassid jumped:
– Does a train?
– Yes, in a second
One may miss everything.

(Zukofsky, A 12)