Pythagoras

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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
• (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
• He pretended to show how an uneducated slave boy could be led to prove Pythagoras' theorem for doubling the square.
• 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.
• It was Pythagoras who was the first person to study the notes emitted by plucked strings of various lengths.
• Abaris, priest of the hyperborean Apollo, who it is pretended was contemporary with Pythagoras, was still more famous for his rod. A Philosophical Dictionary
• Indeed, no less a thinker than Pythagoras , he of hypotenuse fame , logged some impressive early results.
• 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
• His school practised secrecy and communalism making it hard to distinguish between the work of Pythagoras and that of his followers.
• 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