How To Use Pythagoras In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Pythagoras discovered that the pitch of a musical note depends upon the length of the string which produces it.
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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
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He also gives a history of math and music dating back to Pythagoras, and includes schematics for building your own harmonograph.
Boing Boing
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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"
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According to principles of Pythagoras, the river water in the down pipe changed the pitch of the sonic resonance.
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The master had forged - and sold handsomely - holograph letters from Aeschylus to Pythagoras and Alexander to Aristotle, among many others.
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The disciples of Thales and Pythagoras grant that all bodies are passible and divisible into infinity.
Essays and Miscellanies
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If we can express a square number also as the sum of two other square numbers then Pythagoras' Theorem tells us that we have three sides of a right-angled triangle.
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Pythagoras saw the connection between music and numbers and clearly understood how the note produced by a string related to its length.
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Like Pythagoras 'reduction of “woodland notes wild” to mathematical ratio, the writers within this tradition have tried to make of painting and sculp - ture arts wholly intelligible in mathematical terms.
CREATIVITY IN ART
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When, for example, in the demonstration of the theorem of Pythagoras, children handle the various pieces of the metal insets, they should start from the point at which they become aware that a rectangle is equal to the rhomb, and
Spontaneous Activity in Education
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The duad has been generated from the monad, according to Pythagoras.
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Pythagoras went on to develop a very, very elaborate system of proportion.
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Hence Pythagoras and his disciples, though they were vegetable-eaters, eschewed the bean as an article of diet, from its association with politics, demagogism, and ochlocracy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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What is known is that Heraclitus mentions him as a contemporary and critic of Pythagoras, and we can thus date him as living roughly at around the same time.
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‘The numerals of Pythagoras,’ says Porphyry, ‘were hieroglyphical symbols, by means whereof he explained all ideas concerning the nature of all things.’
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Pythagorean esotericism has been a constant presence in Western thought since antiquity, but it was especially in vogue during the Renaissance, thanks to the rediscovery of a poem of “self-help” maxims written around the fourth century B.C. called the Golden Verses of Pythagoras.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
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One is the classical current, as typified by Plato and Pythagoras before him.
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With the help of square, rhombus, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium, equilateral, isosceles, diamond and kite shapes the direct and indirect approaches to teach the Pythagoras Theorem and other mathematical concepts is possible.
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A Pythagoras tiling covers the plane with periodic copies of the squares on the sides of the right triangle.
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Anaxagoras and the followers of Pythagoras, with their development of incommensurables, are also thought by some to be the targets of Zeno's arguments.
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(Interestingly, fava beans are widely known as a major trigger substance, leading to the oft-used colloquial name of favism for the disorder and the intriguing historical speculation that "favism has been known to exist since antiquity; the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras was said to have warned his disciples against the dangers of eating fava beans.")
Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of
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He pretended to show how an uneducated slave boy could be led to prove Pythagoras' theorem for doubling the square.
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In the modern world Pythagoras is best remembered for the mathematical theorem that he is said to have created - the one about the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.
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It was Pythagoras who was the first person to study the notes emitted by plucked strings of various lengths.
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Abaris, priest of the hyperborean Apollo, who it is pretended was contemporary with Pythagoras, was still more famous for his rod.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Indeed, no less a thinker than Pythagoras , he of hypotenuse fame , logged some impressive early results.
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More striking, "The Death of Empedocles" shows the philosopher leaping into Mount Etna he goes down, as Pythagoras comes up!
Return to the Grim and Dark
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His school practised secrecy and communalism making it hard to distinguish between the work of Pythagoras and that of his followers.
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More striking, "The Death of Empedocles" shows the philosopher leaping into Mount Etna he goes down, as Pythagoras comes up!
Return to the Grim and Dark
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Amongst these latter was above all conspicuous Pythagoras Pythagoravitch Tchertokoutski, one of the leading aristocrats of the district of B-- --, the most fiery orator at the nobiliary elections and the owner of a very elegant turn-out.
Taras Bulba and Other Tales
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We can find the length of the other side of the triangle, the diagonal AT, by using Pythagoras' Theorem.
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'Certainly, sir,' said Mannering, entering into the simple humour of his landlord, 'I will calculate his nativity according to the rule of the "triplicities," as recommended by Pythagoras,
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01
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It is said to have been discovered by Pythagoras while in Egypt, but was most probably taught to him by the priests of that country, in whose rites he had been initiated; it is a symbol of the production of the world by the generative and prolific powers of the Creator; hence the Egyptians made the perpendicular and base the representatives of Osiris and Isis, while the hypothenuse represented their child Horus.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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They were taught by Pythagoras himself and obeyed strict rules.
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Numenius argues that for Pythagoras the dyad was a principle independent of the monad; later thinkers, who tried to derive the dyad from the monad (he does not name names but Eudorus,
Pythagoreanism
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Interestingly, fava beans are widely known as a major trigger substance, leading to the oft-used colloquial name of favism for the disorder and the intriguing historical speculation that "favism has been known to exist since antiquity; the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras was said to have warned his disciples against the dangers of eating fava beans.
Randall Amster: The Most Common Disease You've Never Heard Of
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The first important Greeks astronomer was Pythagoras.
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Using multiple integral to prove a generalization of Pythagoras theorem and to calculate the Moivre integral.
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A figure used by Pythagoras, consisting of ten points, arranged in a triangular form so as to represent the monad, duad, triad, and quarterniad.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Pythagoras called the pentagram the pentalpha, which is why there are so many Pentalpha lodges in modern Freemasonry.
Veterans Today
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Pythagoras was the first true mathematician
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But the idea was popularized three hundred years earlier, by Pythagoras, and it was commonly accepted by the time Eratosthenes showed up.
The world used to be flat.
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In the 6th century B.C. Pythagoras observed that simple ratios of lengths of strings determine consonant musical intervals.
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Of indeterminate age - at least 150 but maybe much older, say, dating back to Pythagoras and his right triangles - the 7 tangram pieces (credited by some sources to the Chinese) can form countless different designs.