• expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers. This was disproved by one of Pythagoras' own disciples, Hippasus, who showed that the square root of two is what...
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    ancient Greek maxim, attributed to [the ancient philosopher and mystic] Pythagoras, which forbade people to wear rings".(p 293) Traditional medieval Arabic...
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  • / 50.53°S 103.66°W / -50.53; -103.66 (Myia) 2.59 2012 Daughter of Pythagoras and Theano wife of Milon of Crotona WGPSN Numisia 7°29′S 37°15′E / 7...
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    the Elder credited the realization that they were a single object to Pythagoras in the sixth century BC, while Diogenes Laërtius argued that Parmenides...
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  • at the temple of Aesculapius at Aegae, and philosophy at the school of Pythagoras. Toledo-Pereyra, Luis H. (2006). Origins of the knife: early encounters...
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  • past were common in Hellenism as a moral counter-image to the present. Pythagoras in particular was often attributed an ideal philosophical society, which...
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  • Molly Oodle (1915). Baum's son claimed that Baum's wife burned these, but this was after being cut out of her will. Evidence that Baum's publisher received...
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    planets revolving around a "Central Fire" at the center of the Universe. Pythagoras or Parmenides is said to have been the first to identify the evening star...
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    September 14, 2014, in Montalcino, Italy.[1] She also received in 2008 the Pythagoras Award, Italy. Savaglio was born in Cosenza, Calabria, and grew up in Marano...
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  • Pierre Puiseux (France, 1855–1928) Georg Purbach (Germany, 1423–1461) Pythagoras of Samos (Greece, 580 BC–500 BC) Paris Pişmiş (Armenia/Mexico, 1911–1999)...
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