School of Athens, Domenico Cunego, No later than 1803, Graphic Art, Aquatint, The School of Athens, represents rational truth. Here, we see mathematicians, physicians, metaphysicians and others arranged in a series of smaller groups, each discussing or teaching. In the left foreground, the philosopher Pythagoras (570-490 BC) is seated as he explains to those around him the meaning of the word diatessaron – which directly translated means 'at intervals of four'

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