Cause of all Causes
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Title
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Cause of all Causes
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Creator
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Anonymous 10th century Syriac encyclopedia
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Date
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10th century
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Description
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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."
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Language
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Syriac-Aramaic
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Publisher
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(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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