| Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 366 p. : ill., maps, music ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-353) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Lifetimes and other significant dates -- pt. I. Sixth century B.C. -- 0. "At the hinge of legend and history" -- 1. The long-haired Samian -- 2. "Entirely different from the institutions of the Greeks" -- 3. "Among them was a man of immense knowledge" -- 4. "My true race is of heaven" -- 5. "All things known have number" -- 6. "The famous figure of Pythagoras" -- pt. II. Fifth century B.C.-seventh century A.D. -- 7. A book by Philolaus the Pythagorean -- 8. Plato's search for Pythagoras -- 9. "The ancients, our superiors, who dwelt nearer to the gods, have passed this word on to us" -- 10. From Aristotle to Euclid -- 11. The Roman Pythagoras -- 12. Through neo-Pythagorean and Ptolemaic eyes -- 13. The wrap-up of antiquity -- pt. III. Eighth--twenty-first centuries A.D. -- 14. "Dwarfs on the shoulders of giants" : Pythagoras in the Middle Ages -- 15. "Wherein nature shows herself most excellent and complete" -- 16. "While the morning stars sang together" : Johannes Kepler -- 17. Enlightened and illuminated -- 18. Janus face -- 19. The labyrinths of simplicity -- Epilogue : music or silence -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
Pythagoras -- Influence.
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Philosophy -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780802716316 (alk. paper) |
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0802716318 (alk. paper) |
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