Number Symbolism
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| Author | Christopher Butler |
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| Subject | Numerology |
| Publisher | Routledge (UK), Barnes & Noble (US) |
Publication date | 1970 |
| Pages | 186 |
| ISBN | 0-300-08872-8 |
Number Symbolism is a 1970 book by English academic Christopher Butler. The book documents the occult tradition of numerology and how its use in Ancient Greek philosophy and Judeo-Christian beliefs influenced Western culture.[1] Number Symbolism provided context to the work of scholars who were promoting numerological analysis in the decade prior to the book's publication.[2]
References
[edit]- Notes
- ^ Heninger 1972, p. 353: "Mr. Butler begins properly by distinguishing three main strands subsumed in Renaissance number symbolism: (i) the Greek tradition for a cosmogony presented as a series of ongoing mathematical relationships; (2) the Judeo-Christian tradition for Biblical exegesis based upon the premise that numbers have ulterior meanings; and (3) the extensive lore that had gradually accrued to numbers in the occult (though not irrational) sciences."
- ^ Heninger 1972, p. 352-353
- Sources
- Heninger, S. K. (1972). "Christopher Butler. Number Symbolism. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc". Renaissance Quarterly. 25 (3): 352–356. doi:10.2307/2859025.
Commentary and reviews
[edit]- "Reservations". The Antioch Review. 30 (2): 267-268. 1970. ISSN 0003-5769.
- Barden, Garrett (1973). "Review of Sociology of Meaning; The Psychology of Imagination; Working Papers in Cultural Studies 3; Number Symbolism". Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 62 (245): 96–98. ISSN 0039-3495.
- Davies, H. Neville (1972). "Review of Number Symbolism". The Modern Language Review. 67 (2): 390–391. doi:10.2307/3722319. ISSN 0026-7937.
- Graband, Gerhard (1972). "Christopher Butler, "Number Symbolism" (Book Review)". Anglia. 90 (1): 198.
- Harré, Rom (1972). "Review of Number Symbolism; Silent Poetry. Essays in Numerological Analysis". The Review of English Studies. 23 (89): 105–107. ISSN 0034-6551.
- Heninger, S. K. (1972). "Christopher Butler. Number Symbolism. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc". Renaissance Quarterly. 25 (3): 352–356. doi:10.2307/2859025.
- Kolin, Philip C. (1997). "Time-Beguiling Sport: Number Symbolism in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis (1964): Christopher Butler and Alastair Fowler". Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays. Florence: Routledge. pp. 165–177. ISBN 9781136744327.
- Raban, Jonathan (July 31, 1970). "Code-Cracking". New Statesman. 80: 124–125.