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Philolaus has been called one of "the three most prominent figures in the Pythagorean tradition" [4] and "the outstanding figure in the Pythagorean school", who may have been the first "to commit Pythagorean doctrine to writing". [5] Most of what is known today about the Pythagorean astronomical system is derived from Philolaus's views. [8]
Xuan tu or Hsuan thu (simplified Chinese: 弦图; traditional Chinese: 絃圖; pinyin: xuántú; Wade–Giles: hsüan 2 tʻu 2) is a diagram given in the ancient Chinese astronomical and mathematical text Zhoubi Suanjing indicating a proof of the Pythagorean theorem. [1]
Philolaus has been called one of three most prominent figures in the Pythagorean tradition and the most outstanding figure in the Pythagorean school. Pythagoras developed a school of philosophy that was dominated by both mathematics and mysticism. Most of what is known today about the Pythagorean astronomical system is derived from Philolaus's ...
Title page from a Ming dynasty printed edition of the Zhoubi Suanjing Pages of the Zhoubi Suanjing. The Zhoubi is an anonymous collection of 246 problems [dubious – discuss] encountered by the Duke of Zhou and figures in his court, including the astrologer Shang Gao. Each problem includes an answer and a corresponding arithmetic algorithm.
Any planetary-sized body 180 degrees from Earth should also have been visible to some space probes, such as NASA's STEREO coronagraph probes (two spacecraft launched into orbits around the Sun in 2006, one farther ahead of and one behind the Earth's orbit) which would have seen the Counter-Earth during the first half of 2007. The separation of ...
Pythagoras of Samos [a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) [b], often known mononymously as Pythagoras, was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.
In Harmonices, Kepler—who took issue with Pythagorean observations—laid out an argument for a Christian-centric creator who had made an explicit connection between geometry, astronomy, and music, and that the planets were arranged intelligently. [10] Page from Kepler's Harmonices Mundi. The scales of each of the six known planets, and the ...
Manilius also focuses on a number of Pythagorean tenets; the Pythagorean order of the planets, [106] the importance of geometry and numbers, [106] [107] and the significance of tetraktys (triangular figures made up of ten points arranged in four rows). [108] In key places, Manilius also makes use of non-Stoics like Eudoxus of Cnidus and Cicero ...