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4 unusual facts about pythagorean


Alain de Lille

The Platonist seemed to outweigh the Aristotelian in Alan, but he felt strongly that the divine is all intelligibility and argued this notion through much Aristotelian logic combined with Pythagorean mathematics.

Baphomet

I believe it to have been the Pythagorean pentagon (Fünfeck) of health and prosperity: ...

Satellite Supersonic Vol. 1

Trey Spruance — guitars (electric guitar, bass guitar, baritone guitar, Pythagorean guitar), piano, organ, percussion, glockenspiel, saz, autoharp, synthesizer, vocals, production, overdubbing, mixing, arrangement, design

Tetrabiblos

Uniting these Aristotelian principles with a prevalent Greek philosophy employed by Zeno of Citium and the Pythagoreans, the next three chapters arrange the planets into pairs of opposites.


Harmonic seventh

This note is often corrected to 16:9 on the natural horn in just intonation or Pythagorean tunings, but the pure seventh harmonic was used in pieces including Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings.

Hermotimus of Clazomenae

Hermotimus of Clazomenae (c. 6th century BCE), called by Lucian a Pythagorean, was a philosopher who first proposed, before Anaxagoras (according to Aristotle) the idea of mind being fundamental in the cause of change.

Hicetas

Like his fellow Pythagorean Ecphantus and the Academic Heraclides Ponticus, he believed that the daily movement of permanent stars was caused by the rotation of the Earth around its axis.

Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples

Here Lefèvre gives a very curious description of this ancient pythagorean game, but with such little detail that cannot understand it properly except by joining it to the extended notice which Boissière gave to the same game

John Raven

Raven contributed the chapters relating to the Italian tradition (Pythagoras of Samos, Alcmaeon of Croton, Pre-Parmenidean Pythagoreanism, Parmenides of Elea, Zeno of Elea, Melissus of Samos, Philolaus of Croton and Eurytus of Croton) and on Anaxagoras and Archelaus.

Mysterium Cosmographicum

This book explains Kepler's cosmological theory, based on the Copernican system, in which the five Pythagorean regular polyhedra dictate the structure of the universe and reflect God's plan through geometry.

Numerology

Different methods of calculation exist, including Chaldean, Pythagorean, Hebraic, Helyn Hitchcock's method, Phonetic, Japanese, Arabic and Indian.

Phanes Press

One of its representative and more significant publications was The Pythagorean Sourcebook translated by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie issued in 1987.

Philolaus

According to Aristotle writing in Metaphysics, Philolaus added a tenth unseen body, he called Counter-Earth, as without it there would be only nine revolving bodies, and the Pythagorean number theory required a tenth.

Pythagorean tuning

Bragod is a duo giving historically informed performances of mediaeval Welsh music using the crwth and six-stringed lyre using Pythagorean tuning

Regular polyhedron

Kepler's work, and the discovery since that time of Uranus and Neptune, have invalidated the Pythagorean idea.

Rocket engine

400 BC, a Greek Pythagorean named Archytas, propelled a wooden bird along wires using steam.

Timaeus

Timaeus of Locri, the 5th-century (BC) Pythagorean philosopher, appearing in Plato's dialogue


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