"Music provides the foundations of every field of learning, philosophy the pinnacles." - Aristides Quintilianus, De Musica III.247

"The task of music is not merely to relate to one another the parts of musical sound, but to bring together in a harmonious relation all natural things." - Aristides Quintilianus, De Musica I.1 (quoting Panaceus the Pythagorean)

"No human activity is complete without music." - Aristides Quintilianus, De Musica II.4

"...since it is also natural for him to desire, through some divine passion, to behold as it were, the class to which it belongs and to know with what others things it is linked among those included in the world-order."

"... if he wonders also at other things of beauty - at the extreme rationality of the power of harmonia and the way it finds and creation with perfect accuracy the differences between the forms that belongs to it..."

"It is natural for a person who reflects on [ratio and melody] to be immediately filled with wonder." - Ptolemy, Harmonics III.3

God and nature create nothing that has not its use. - Aristotle, De Caelo I.4

Aristotle interprets the Timaeus as saying that the earth spins on its axis. (De Caelo II.13.2).

It’s so jarring to me that biology becomes increasingly machinic the deeper you look It starts feeling very biomechanical

What is eternity? It is God. For eternity is not eternity except in Perfect Life. Therefore, God lives in eternity. Life proceeds not from mortality, but life is in life. — Hildegard von Bingen, Letter 31r

Such studies are the way to the highest things, the way of reason which chooses for itself ordered steps lest it fall from the height. The steps are the various liberal arts. — Augustine, De Ordine I.8.24

He says that the solstice occurs in Capricorn & Cancer (where we got the names of the terrestrial tropics which have been retained despite the precession) while ours are passing out of Sagittarius and Gemini.

The procession of the equinoxes, taking ~ 26k years, may seem too slow for relevance. But reading authors in antiquity such as Martianus Capella, the discrepancies show. His north (pole) star is in Draco; our "Polaris" is in Ursa Minor.

You have no idea how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms. - Gauss

From "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" by Aristid Lindenmayer Lindenmayer developed a mathematical topology theory which evolved into a model for branching structures

(Sulla didn't just attack the bankroll. His response was brutally violent. Not a good time to be a citizen of Rome.)

Marius used the aggrieved to commit atrocities but he was patronized by wealthy donors. Sulla attacked the bankroll.

So when Sulla's proscription came after the second triumph, he criminalized "hospitality, private friendship, and the borrowing and lending of money" towards the accused. Notably, "these accusations abounded mostly against the rich." (CW I.XI.96).

Marius vs. Sulla is often popularly thought as the party of the people vs. the party of the rich. While Marius frequently utilized Roman slaves to commit his atrocities, he was bankrolled by "the rich and many wealthy women." (CW I.VII.62)