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philosopher's game
philosopher's game n. now chiefly historical a chess-like game played with round, triangular, and square pieces, each marked with a number, on an oblong board divided into 128 squares; = ryghtmathy n.
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1563 (title) The most ancient and learned playe, called the philosophers game invented for the honest recreation of students.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 346 The ordinary recreations which we haue in Winter..are Cardes, Tables, and Dice, Shouel~board, Chesse-play, the Philosophers game.
1787 R. Twiss Chess I. 65 The board of this Philosopher's game, is eight squares in breadth, and sixteen in height. There are twenty-four men on a side, represented as flat pieces of wood, cut in the form of circles, triangles, and squares. The king is a square on which is a triangle and a circle.
1952 H. J. R. Murray Hist. Board-games iv. 84 Rithmomachy,..‘battle of numbers’ or Ludus Philosophorum, ‘the Philosophers' Game’. An arithmetical game, invented in the twelfth century, probably in France.
2003 Early Sci. & Med. 8 64 From about 1050 A.D. to the dawn of the Scientific Revolution, rithmomachia,..also known as ‘the philosophers' game’, played a notable role in European learned culture.
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