Agrani

Ye baat aayi kahan se

Ek-ko-ekta maanne ka pratikatmak vichar Greek darshan me sach me purana hai. Lekin is kadi me sabse kamzor kadi khud Pythagoras hain. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ke anusar sabooton se lagta hai ki unhone koi kitab likhi hi nahi; unki mrityu ke baad pehle 200 saal tak - Plato, Aristotle aur unke turant baad ke logon samet - kisi ne unki kisi rachna ka hawala nahi diya, aur sabse vistrit vivran teesri sadi CE ke hain, yani unke jaane ke lagbhag 800 saal baad. Wahi entry ye bhi kehti hai ki ve kis arth me ganitagya the, ye aaj tak vivadit hai. Aaj 1 se juda vyaktitva wala matlab isse kahin naya hai: use English me Mrs L. Dow Balliett (1847-1929) ne apni 1904, 1908 aur 1911 ki kitabon me likha, aur 1904 wali kitab ka upsheershak hi tha 'a System of Numbers as Taught by Pythagoras' - yani Pythagoras ka naam unke lagbhag 2400 saal baad label ki tarah chipkaya gaya. Balliett ki dost Julia Seton ko ise aam janta tak pahunchane ka shrey diya jata hai, aur Seton ki beti Juno Belle Kapp ne 'Dr. Juno Jordan' naam se numerology ki lokpriya kitaben likhin. Khud 'numerology' shabd 1907 se pehle English me darj nahi milta; usse purana shabd 'arithmancy' hai, jo 1570s ka hai. Isliye is ank ke vyaktitva-varnan ko 'prachin' kehna galat hai: pratik purana ho sakta hai, par ye varnan bisvi sadi ki shuruaat ka hai.

The symbolic idea of one-as-unity is genuinely old in Greek philosophical writing. But Pythagoras is the weakest link in the chain. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy reports that the evidence suggests he wrote no books: no source contemporaneous with him or in the first two hundred years after his death - Plato, Aristotle and their immediate successors included - quotes a work by him or indicates any existed, and the most detailed and influential accounts date to the third century CE, some 800 years after he died. The same entry notes it remains controversial whether he was in any sense a mathematician. The personality reading now attached to 1 is far newer. It was written out in English by Mrs L. Dow Balliett (1847-1929) in books of 1904, 1908 and 1911; the 1904 book is subtitled 'a System of Numbers as Taught by Pythagoras', which is to say the Pythagoras name was applied as a label roughly 2,400 years after the man. Balliett's friend Julia Seton is credited with carrying the system to a general readership, and Seton's daughter Juno Belle Kapp wrote popular numerology books under the pen name 'Dr. Juno Jordan'. The word 'numerology' itself is not recorded in English before about 1907; the older term was 'arithmancy', from the 1570s. So calling this number's character reading 'ancient' is wrong: the symbolism may be old, but the reading is early twentieth century.