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.
Gist of Idea
Eurytus showed that numbers underlie things by making pictures of creatures out of pebbles
Source
report of Eurytus (fragments/reports [c.400 BCE]) by Aristotle - Metaphysics 1092b
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.448
A Reaction
Pythagorean. Digitising reality.