Cause of all Causes

Title

Cause of all Causes

Creator

Anonymous 10th century Syriac encyclopedia

Date

10th century

Description

A 10th-century bishop of Urhoy/Edessa discussed ideas similar to Galileo's astronomy and Nietzsche's superman in his book 'The Cause of All Causes', a remarkable and insightful work:

"And the knowledge of the whole star system, discovered by the Babylonian Arameans, that is to say the Chaldeans, those who in the south-east regions are growling because of the sandy soil in all their places and the unknown paths and roads leading from place to place and from city to city."

Language

Syriac-Aramaic

Publisher

(Das Buch von der Erkenntniss der Wahrheit, oder, Der Ursache aller Ursachen : nach den syrischen Handschriften zu Berlin, Rom, Paris und Oxford. (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1889);)

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