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" Lore and science in ancient Pythagoreanism / "
Walter Burkert ; translated by Edwin L. Minar, Jr
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632006
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Weisheit und Wissenschaft.English
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Burkert, Walter,1931-2015
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Lore and science in ancient Pythagoreanism /\ Walter Burkert ; translated by Edwin L. Minar, Jr
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 1972
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535 p. ;; 25 cm
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0674539184
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: 9780674539181
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Translation of Weisheit und Wissenschaft; Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos und Platon
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Bibliography: p. 493-508
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| Contents
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I. Platonic and Pythagorean Number Theory. -- 1. The Platonic Theory of Ideal Numbers -- 2. The philosophy of the Pythagoreans according to Aristotle -- 3. The Later Non-Aristotelian Tradition and Its Sources, Speusippus, Xenocrates, and Heraclides Ponticus -- 4. Pythagoreanism in Plato and the Origin in Platonism of the Pythagorean Tradition -- II. Pythagoras in the Earlist Tradition. -- 1. Source Problems -- 2. Historical Background -- 3. Metemphychosis and "Shamanism" -- 4. Acusmata -- 5. Acusmatici and Mathematici -- 6. Early Evidence for Pythagoras as a Scientist? -- III. Philolaus. -- 1. The Special Position of Philolaus' Book in the Pythagorean Tradition -- 2. The Spurious and the Genuine in the Philolaus Fragments -- 3. Reflection of Pythagorean Philosophy in the Fifth Century B.C.? -- IV. Astronomy and Pythagoreanism. -- 1. The Structure of the World and the Planetary System -- 2. The Theory of Planetary Movements -- 3. The Cosmos of Philolaus -- 4. Harmony of the S[heres and Astral Immortality -- V. Pythagorean Musical Theory. -- 1. Speculation, Experimentation, and Fiction -- 2. Number Symbolism and Calculation of Proportions in Philolaus -- VI. Pythagorean Number Theory and Greek Mathematics. -- 1. Did the Pythagoreans Lay the Foundations of Greek Mathematics? -- 2. Pythagorean Arithmetic -- 3. Pythagorean Geometry and Mathematical Secrets -- 4. Number and Cosmos
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Philolaus,approximately 470 B.C.-
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Plato
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Pythagoras and Pythagorean school
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B243.B813
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Minar, Edwin L.
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Burkert, Walter,1931-2015
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