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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]
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 ...
Little is known about him apart from Pliny's Natural History.Sosigenes appears in Book 18, 210-212: ... There were three main schools, the Chaldaean, the Egyptian, and the Greek; and to these a fourth was added in our country by Caesar during his dictatorship, who with the assistance of the learned astronomer Sosigenes brought the separate years back into conformity with the course of the sun.
Dante Alighieri was fascinated by Pythagorean numerology [306] and based his descriptions of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven on Pythagorean numbers. [306] Dante wrote that Pythagoras saw Unity as Good and Plurality as Evil [ 307 ] and, in Paradiso XV, 56–57, he declares: "five and six, if understood, ray forth from unity". [ 308 ]
Iamblichus (/ aɪ ˈ æ m b l ɪ k ə s / eye-AM-blik-əs; Ancient Greek: Ἰάμβλιχος, romanized: Iámblichos; Arabic: يَمْلِكُ, romanized: Yamlīkū; Aramaic: 𐡉𐡌𐡋𐡊𐡅, romanized: Yamlīkū; [2] [3] c. 245 [4] – c. 325) was a Syrian neoplatonic philosopher. [5] He determined a direction later taken by neoplatonism.
The ancient Hebrews, like all the ancient peoples of the Near East, believed the sky was a solid dome with the Sun, Moon, planets and stars embedded in it. [4] In biblical cosmology, the firmament is the vast solid dome created by God during his creation of the world to divide the primal sea into upper and lower portions so that the dry land could appear.
Morris Kline classified the four elements of the quadrivium as pure (arithmetic), stationary (geometry), moving (astronomy), and applied (music) number. [ 16 ] This schema is sometimes referred to as "classical education", but it is more accurately a development of the 12th- and 13th-century Renaissance with recovered classical elements, rather ...
In the field of astronomy, Hippocrates tried to explain the phenomena of comets and the Milky Way. His ideas have not been handed down very clearly, but he probably thought both were optical illusions, the result of refraction of solar light by moisture that was exhaled by, respectively, a putative planet near the Sun, and the stars. The fact ...