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1 day ago · Life Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left).Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, the son of a Polish father and a mother who was of mixed German-Polish descent.
Jul 2, 2024 · The writings attributed to the Pythagorean philosopher Philolaus of Croton (c. 470 – c. 385 BC) are the earliest texts to describe the numerological and musical theories that were later ascribed to Pythagoras.
1 day ago · The Pythagorean Philolaus was the precursor to Copernicus in that he believed the planets moved around a central flame, rather than Earth being the center of the universe. While he was ahead of his time, there is no evidence that the Pythagoreans thought the earth was round, and they did not believe it rotated.
Jun 21, 2024 · Little of what is known about Pythagoras comes from contemporary accounts, and the first fragmentary accounts of his life came in the fourth century bce, about 150 years after his death. Pythagoras was born in Samos and likely went to Egypt and Babylon as a young man.
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- Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher and mathematician. He seems to have become interested in philosophy when he was quite young. As part of his educ...
- Pythagoras himself came up with the theory that numbers are of great importance for understanding the natural world, and he studied the role of num...
- Pythagoras was born about 570 BCE on the island of Samos. He died at Metapontium, in modern-day Italy, about 500 to 490 BCE. In one version of his...
- It is difficult to speak about Pythagoras’s religion since he left no writings behind. However, the Pythagoreans believed that after death the huma...
6 days ago · heliocentrism, a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point (e.g., of the solar system or of the universe) while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
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4 days ago · Western philosophy originated in Ancient Greece in the 6th century BCE with the pre-Socratics. They attempted to provide rational explanations of the cosmos as a whole. [27] The philosophy following them was shaped by Socrates (469–399 BCE), Plato (427–347 BCE), and Aristotle (384–322 BCE).
Jul 1, 2024 · Week 9: Philolaus and fifth-century Pythagoreanism; Melissus Week 10: The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus 1 and 2 Week 11: Diogenes of Apollonia; recap: Aristotle on the Presocratics Instruction in Greek will be given in the form of separate language tutorials.
