Modern influence of Ancient Greece (section Pythagoras)
been defended by C. J. De Vogel, Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism (1966), pp. 97–102, and C. Riedweg, Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, And Influence...
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Greek mathematics refers to mathematics texts and ideas stemming from the Archaic through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, mostly from the 5th century...
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long before the well-known Septuagint version. He stated that Plato and Pythagoras knew the Jewish Law and borrowed from it. In the preface to his 1844 translation...
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were quite justified in regarding themselves as the spiritual heirs of Pythagoras; and, in their hands, philosophy ceased to exist as such, and became theology...
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cracks and stripes. Early Greek philosophers studied pattern, with Plato, Pythagoras and Empedocles attempting to explain order in nature. The modern understanding...
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(See also: Al Gore and information technology) The Greek philosopher Pythagoras was not the first to discover the equation expressed in the Pythagorean...
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and b, and radius r = QO = OG. Using Pythagoras' theorem, QC² = QO² + OC² ∴ QC = √QO² + OC² = QM. Using Pythagoras' theorem, OC² = OG² + GC² ∴ GC = √OC²...
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and b, and radius r = QO = OG. Using Pythagoras' theorem, QC² = QO² + OC² ∴ QC = √QO² + OC² = QM. Using Pythagoras' theorem, OC² = OG² + GC² ∴ GC = √OC²...
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contents." Jung writes about causal factors in personal psychology, as stemming from, influenced by an abstraction of the impersonal physical layer, the...
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material reality has led to philosophical debates since at least the time of Pythagoras. The ancient philosopher Plato argued that abstractions that reflect material...
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More died I seem to have died myself: because we were a single soul as Pythagoras once said. But such is the flux of human affairs." — Erasmus to Piotr...
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used to describe the order in nature. This was noted and advocated by Pythagoras, Plato, Galileo, and Newton. Some theorists, like Hilary Putnam and Penelope...
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March 9, 2020. Phelps, Norm. The longest struggle: animal advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA. Lantern Books, 2007, p. 227. "Past Washingtonians of the Year...
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p. 146. ISBN 978-0-674-01495-4. a corpuscularian tradition in alchemy stemming from the speculations of the medieval author Geber (Jabir ibn Hayyan) Felix...
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Mario Livio, Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician...
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PhoneArena. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2017. "We're gonna need Pythagoras' help to compare screen sizes in 2017". The Verge. 30 March 2017. Retrieved...
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this kind are handed down, one which they refer to Plato, and another to Pythagoras. (The latter) starts from odd numbers. For it makes the odd number the...
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crowd then pelted the corpse with heads of lettuce. The followers of Pythagoras were vegetarians, and "Pythagorean" at one time came to mean "vegetarian"...
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personality aspects: Shaka (01, Good), Lilith (02, Evil), Edison (03, Thinker), Pythagoras (04, Wisdom), Atlas (05, Violence), and York (06, Greed). As CP0 (Lucci...
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subvert the oppressive restraints of the powerful. His thyrsus, a fennel-stem sceptre, sometimes wound with ivy and dripping with honey, is both a beneficent...
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They also demonstrated knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem well before Pythagoras. The ner of 600 and the sar of 3600 were formed from the unit of 60, corresponding...
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back to ancient times, particularly in the work of Pythagoras and Plato. Followers of Pythagoras, for instance, lived in one building and held their...
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were harmful because their practices were regarded as magical and thus stemming from contact with demons, whereas a local community might value and respect...
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found the underlying truth at the heart of the misunderstood myth of 'Pythagoras' hammers' (the square of the numbers concerned yielded those musical intervals...
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and b, and radius r = QO = OG. Using Pythagoras' theorem, QC² = QO² + OC² ∴ QC = √QO² + OC² = QM. Using Pythagoras' theorem, OC² = OG² + GC² ∴ GC = √OC²...
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numerology, being the first square number and for being even. Reputedly, Pythagoras held that a man's life was divided into four sections, much like a year...
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cannot be expressed as a fraction. The works of Thales of Miletus and Pythagoras in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE are often regarded as the inception of...
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Yoga-kundalini Upanishad: "The divine power, Kundalini, shines like the stem of a young lotus; like a snake, coiled round upon herself she holds her tail...
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characteristics. Blood type remains a popular form of divination from physiology. Stemming from Western influences, body reading or ninsou, determines personality...
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is thought to have begun with Thales of Miletus (c. 624–c.546 BC) and Pythagoras of Samos (c. 582–c. 507 BC). Although the extent of the influence is disputed...
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