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)

Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 4.

The clock and the corn-mill
(The water-mill, that is,)
The clock, the idea of applying automatic device
(Moved by springs) to production.
The mill the essential organism of a machine:
The mechanical driving power; the transmitting
mechanism; the working machine,
Which deals with the material. Each
With an existence independent of the others.
The mathematicians, so far as they occupied themselves
With practical mechanics and its theoretical side,
Started form the simple corn-grinding water-mill.

(Louis Zukofsky, A acht)

No thought exists
Completly abstracted from action,
Without the solids of bodies
There is no geometry,
Who acknowledge space – moving
Know as many dimensions
as they have muscles

(Louis Zukofsky, A 12)

The young Fibonacci learned the “nine figures of the numbers used by the Hindus.”

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“Whether it was `impossible for matter to think?`

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