Divinity Atlas

Sacred Correspondences
Articles

The Theses and the Greatest Name

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

Learn More
The Theses and the Greatest Name

Ninety-five is five times nineteen and reduces to fourteen and then five. Its best-known association is the Ninety-Five Theses that Martin Luther is said to have posted at Wittenberg in 1517, the disputation on indulgences that opened the Reformation; the number is a byword for that founding challenge, though whether the theses were literally nailed to the church door is debated by historians. In the Bahai Faith the Greatest Name, Allah-u-Abha, God is Most Glorious, is repeated ninety-five times each day as a devotional discipline set out in the sacred law, so the number governs a daily act of worship.

In chemistry, ninety-five is the atomic number of americium, named for the Americas on the model of europium's naming for Europe. It was synthesised at Berkeley during the Second World War and, together with curium, announced in an unplanned answer on the children's radio programme Quiz Kids on Armistice Day, 11 November 1945, after a young panellist asked whether any elements besides plutonium and neptunium had been found there.

Ninety-five factors as 5 x 19 and carries 4 divisors in all. Summing its proper divisors gives only 25, short of the number itself, which places it among the deficient numbers in the same classical scheme.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Article On

Sources
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.