# Angels and pins

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-and-pins/42235>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 22, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-and-pins/42235 "2000-11-22T03:34:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-and-pins/42235/1 "2000-11-22T03:34:42Z")

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I have heard a lot about how Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, but I have no idea why he felt he needed to know this or what the good sir concluded.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-and-pins/42235/2 "2000-11-22T07:28:50Z")

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[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4\_132.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_132.html)

[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001110.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/001110.html)

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**Author:** ![mongrel\_8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@mongrel\_8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mongrel_8)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-and-pins/42235/3 "2000-11-22T14:48:01Z")

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Thank you **dtilque** , I should have thought to look in the archives first.