Pythagoras, which is performed in the following manner. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
He treated the epic poets as fools and called Pythagoras a fraud. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor, My Eyes] Reference
I recalled Pythagoras 'saying, which I had quoted to Chairemon so lightly. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
I regret not recalling Pythagoras' comment ''from the sample we can judge the whole''. From Wordnik.com. [Comment by Peter Troy] Reference
He may have been mathematically inclined, since he saddled one of his children with the name Pythagoras Wetmore. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » State v. Wetmore (Conn. 1802)] Reference
He was at once given the franchise, but the question was still pending whether he was to be known as Pythagoras or Euphorbus. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
Hence the opinions advanced by the wise men of antiquity, such as Pythagoras (582-500 B.C.), Heraclitus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
Next to these are the semi-divine heroes of mythology and the philosopher-saints such as Pythagoras and. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
The idea of a spherical cosmos can be attributed to sixth - and fifth-century BC philosophers such as Pythagoras and Parmenides. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Watch] Reference
This is the formula actually attributed to Pythagoras. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Alcmaeon, a contemporary of Pythagoras (6th century B.C.). From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Pythagoras was afterwards developed into the solar system by. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
A pupil of Pythagoras and an older contemporary of Empedocles was. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Pythagoras also recognized the potency of music as a remedial force. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
In particular Pythagoras is said to have introduced from Babylon into. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
When, in the assertion of popular right, Pythagoras was driven away by. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
Pythagoras held that the unit or monad is the principle and end of all. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The Theory of Numbers then began with Pythagoras (about 572-497 B. C.). From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Pythagoras is said to have discovered the theory of proportionals or proportion. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
In addition, Pythagoras founded Arithmetic, that is, the scientific theory of numbers. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Pythagoras further differed from his predecessors in one respect which proved of vital moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The most famous proposition attributed to Pythagoras himself is of course the theorem of Eucl. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The worship of Dionysus Zagreus in Thrace was accompanied by ascetic practices before Pythagoras. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
But Euclid was not their discoverer; they were gradually evolved from the time of Pythagoras onwards. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
That was an excellent precept of Pythagoras, "Choose the best kind of life, custom will make it easy.". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Then again, Pythagoras showed that a right angle can be formed without the contrivances of the artisan. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
At first simple, it was regulated on a mathematical basis by Pythagoras, who understood the laws of vibration. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
There is no reason to suppose that Pythagoras displayed any particular originality in this part of his teaching. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Pythagoras of S.mos, a philosopher, scientist, and moralist of the 6th century B.C. QUADI, a tribe of S. Germany. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
In saying that arithmetic began with Pythagoras we have to distinguish between the uses of that word then and now. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Discovered by Pythagoras, the golden ratio is irrational, which means it extends to an infinite number of decimal places. From Wordnik.com. [Islam Got It First] Reference
One of Pythagoras 'wisest maxims, in his "Golden Verses," is that with which he enjoins the pupil to "reverence himself.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
Pythagoras, as part of his doctrine of the transmigration of souls, is said to have claimed to have been formerly Euphorbus. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
The Pythagorean arithmetic as a whole, with the developments made after the time of Pythagoras himself, is mainly known to us through. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Pythagorean use of the term depends on a certain way of regarding man, which there is good reason for ascribing to Pythagoras himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Thither shall we after many changes, where so many brave orators are; where so many grave philosophers; Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Socrates. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
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