"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" is a metaphor for wasting time debating topics of no practical value, or on questions whose answers hold no intellectual consequence when more urgent
Photograph at 10x magnification of the head of a size #2 insect pin. Taken by Hugo Sappington at the Essig Museum of Entomology, using a Macropod Micro Kit.
Cancale Église Saint Méen Intérieur Baie 100 02
Thomas von Aquin im Glasfenster des Kölner Domes
Clonmel SS. Peter and Paul's Church West Aisle Window 11 Saint Thomas Aquinas 2012 09 07
Christian demonology and theology tends to debate over the gender and sexual proclivities of demons. These questions are referenced in Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese phrases that imply that t
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
…Empire besieged the city. In Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese, the conundrum of useless scholarly debates is linked to a similar question of whether or not angels are sexless. In Polish, the question is about devils instead of angels. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica, written c. 1270, includes discussion of several questions…
Lilith, 1887 by John Collier
Merlin is said to have been born from the relationship of an incubus with a mortal (illumination from a 13th century French manuscript)