Pythagoras

How To Use Pythagoras In A Sentence

• And it is reported that Pythagoras, upon the discovery of this problem, offered a sacrifice to the gods; for this is a much more exquisite theorem than that which lays down, that the square of the hypothenuse in a right-angled triangle is equal to the squares of the two sides. Essays and Miscellanies
• What now seems so strange to us is that Pythagoras would not have understood how there could be any distinction between his mathematical ideas and his mystical beliefs about immortality and oneness with the Cosmos.
• Pythagorās cum in geōmetriā quiddam novī invēnisset, Mūsīs bovem immolāsse dīcitur, _when Pythagoras had discovered something new in geometry, he is said to have sacrificed an ox to the Muses_.a. Note that the Indicative is much less frequent in such clauses than the Subjunctive, and is regularly confined to those cases where the main clause has tum, eō diē, eō annō, eō tempore or some similar correlative of the cum. New Latin Grammar
• Pythagoras, the Western embodiment of vegetarianism, is a good analogue for the 'Saturnian Archimage'.) Morton, Topoi of 'Blood and Gold' in Mary and Percy Shelley
• Diels emended the sentence to say that Alcmaeon was ‘young’ in the old age of Pythagoras and a similar remark can be found in Iamblichus.
• 187, 'I was never so berhymed since Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember '; _Twelfth Night_, IV. ii. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
• Pythagoras discovered that the pitch of a musical note depends upon the length of the string which produces it.
• Both the Kimbell's own "Pythagoras Coming Out of a Cave" (1662) and "The Death of Empedocles" (1665-1670) — the first European painting of a volcano, according to Ms. Langdon — deal with pre-Socratic philosophers who were renowned for magical powers and their status as tricksters. Return to the Grim and Dark
• He also gives a history of math and music dating back to Pythagoras, and includes schematics for building your own harmonograph. Boing Boing
• The most important feature of Caldecott's work is the way in he draws together beauty and truth, faith and reason:The key to this vision lies in the notion traceable back to Pythagoras of beauty as cosmic order, an order that is simultaneously aesthetic, harmonious, symbolic, mathematical, and sacramental. "Beauty for Truth's Sake"