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The task Ferguson (Tycho & Kepler) takes on is formidable: to describe not only the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic Pythagoras, but also the entire sweep of the Pythagorean legacy, from his ...
Ancient people, as indicated by a few myths, knew of the vertebrate fossils from Samos, an island of Greece. The ancient Greeks interpreted these fossils as the remains of Neades, strange exotic ...
Poor old Pythagoras is slipping away from us. He was always a shadowy figure in Western thought -- his followers were secretive and he himself wrote nothing, as far as we know. Even in his own time ...
Pythagoras’ reflection on harmony highlights his belief that the natural world operates through mathematical structure. His observations connected the patterns behind musical sound with the larger ...
Do you remember the Pythagoras Theorem, which you once studied in Mathematics, was a discovery of Pythagoras? In today’s time ...
The Pythagorean cup, also known as the Greedy Cup or the Cup of Justice, is a marvel of ancient engineering and a profound symbol of ethical teaching attributed to the famous Greek mathematician and ...
HUNDREDS of thousands of years ago, an ancient Greek philosopher named Pythagoras lived. Today, we know him mainly for his mathematical theorem, but he was ...