{"id":8852,"date":"2020-04-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/blog\/numbers-and-figures\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T22:00:00","slug":"numbers-and-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/blog\/numbers-and-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers and figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--\n\n<h2>In this week, while preparing ourselves for Eastern, I want to forget Corona for a little while. I will return to the subject next week. As a summary however there is the poem of Novalis, from his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Novalis was a scientist.<u><em><a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"ouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img  alt=\"Mieke Mosmuller\" data-src=\"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/a323357f98c7956b78af9f91f3079c52.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h2>In this week, while preparing ourselves for Eastern, I want to forget Corona for a little while. I will return to the subject next week. As a summary however there is the poem of Novalis, from his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Novalis was a scientist.<\/h2>\n<p>Wenn nicht mehr Zahlen und Figuren<br \/>Sind Schl\u00fcssel aller Kreaturen<br \/>Wenn die, so singen oder k\u00fcssen,<br \/>Mehr als die Tiefgelehrten wissen,<br \/>Wenn sich die Welt ins freye Leben<br \/>Und in die Welt wird zur\u00fcck begeben,<br \/>Wenn dann sich wieder Licht und Schatten<br \/>Zu \u00e4chter Klarheit werden gatten,<br \/>Und man in M\u00e4hrchen und Gedichten<br \/>Erkennt die wahren Weltgeschichten,<br \/>Dann fliegt vor Einem geheimen Wort<br \/>Das ganze verkehrte Wesen fort.<\/p>\n<p>When numbers and figures<br \/>Are no longer the keys to all creatures,<br \/>When those who sing or kiss<br \/>Know more than the deeply educated,<br \/>When the world returns itself<br \/>To free life and [true] world,<br \/>When light and shadow once more<br \/>Give birth to true clarity,<br \/>When we recognize in tales and poems<br \/>The true story of the world,<br \/>Then the whole false-turned core of things<br \/>Will fly away before one mysterious Word.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" alt=\"Mieke Mosmuller\" src=\"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Blog310.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Numbers and figures by Mieke Mosmuller<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week, while preparing ourselves for Eastern, I want to forget Corona for a little while. I will return to the subject next week. As a summary however there is the poem of Novalis, from his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Novalis was a scientist. Wenn nicht mehr Zahlen und FigurenSind Schl\u00fcssel aller KreaturenWenn die, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miekemosmuller.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}