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| 651 | Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles |
| Full Idea: Eurytus assigned numbers to things by taking some pebbles and using them to create likeness of the shapes of living things, such as a man or a horse. | |||
| From: report of Eurytus (fragments/reports [c.400 BCE]) by Aristotle - Metaphysics 1092b | |||
| A reaction: Pythagorean. Digitising reality. |