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Pythagoras

Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician from Samos who made several important contributions to astronomy, physics, and mathematics. He was the first to propose that the Earth is spherical in shape and that the planet Venus is the same celestial body seen in the morning and evening skies. Pythagoras developed models of the universe where the Earth was stationary at the center and all celestial bodies orbited in perfect spheres, which he believed created harmonic musical patterns known as the "Music of the Spheres". He founded a philosophical school in Croton that was influential and emphasized mathematics, the transmigration of souls, and that numbers represent the true essence of things.

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician from Samos who made several important contributions to astronomy, physics, and mathematics. He was the first to propose that the Earth is spherical in shape and that the planet Venus is the same celestial body seen in the morning and evening skies. Pythagoras developed models of the universe where the Earth was stationary at the center and all celestial bodies orbited in perfect spheres, which he believed created harmonic musical patterns known as the "Music of the Spheres". He founded a philosophical school in Croton that was influential and emphasized mathematics, the transmigration of souls, and that numbers represent the true essence of things.

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PHYTHOGORAS

Pythagoras, (born
c. 570 BCE,
Samos, Ionia
[Greece]—died c.
500–490 BCE,
Metapontum,
Lucanium [Italy]),
is a Greek
philosopher, and
mathematician.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASTRONOMY
Pythagoras is credited to be the first person to claim that
the earth is a sphere and is the first to identify the
morning and evening “stars” are in fact the same
planet, and are what we know today as the planet Venus.

MODELS OF THE Pythagoras' view of the universe


was that the spherical earth at

UNIVERSE HE rest in the center of the universe


and everything rotating around

WORKED WITH the earth, each object carried by


its own sphere. He held that the
planets all orbited in giant
spheres, and as the spheres
rubbed against each other, they
created sound. He claimed that
this sound created musical
harmonies; this music comes to be
called the Music of the Spheres.

Pythagoras founded a philosophical and religious


INFLUENCE

school in Croton(e) that had many followers. Since


Pythagoras' disciples came to worship him as a
demigod and to attribute all the doctrines of their
order to its founder, it is virtually impossible to
distinguish his teachings from those of his followers.
The Pythagoreans are best known for two teachings:
the transmigration of souls and the theory that
numbers constitute the true nature of things. The
Pythagorean philosophy had a great influence on that
of Plato, particularly the reliance on mathematics.

MORE PYTHAGORAS FACTS!


Almost nothing is known Well known today for the The evidence is unclear
of Pythagoras' life even mathematical formula, as to when and where
though later writers. Pythagorean Theorem. his death occurred.

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