¶ Secrecy (3)
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Secrecy: Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge: Navigation: (Cont.)
essence of the navigation. I think that these secrets were deliberately hidden by the priests and kept from the people, even possibly from the kings.
“At any rate the priests of the Roman Catholic Church began to tell me that this is a hierarchy of Heavenly Host . . . we have all kinds of legends mixed up here, but I think that this is one way that the priesthood found a way of carrying very important mathematical information.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #7, pp. 252-253. 11 Jul’62
