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The Medieval Church · 1458
On the Beryl
De Beryllo
Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464
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What it is
A short work using the image of a lens through which the invisible becomes visible, on how the mind may glimpse the coincidence of opposites in God.
Why it lasted
The clearest statement of Cusa's method, and a favourite of later thinkers from Bruno to the German idealists.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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