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[[Image:Pythagoras von Samos.png|right|thumb]]
[[Image:Pythagoras von Samos.png|right|thumb]]
'''Pythagoras''' lived approximately from 582 to 507 BC. He was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[mathematician]] and [[philosopher]], for whom the [[Pythagorean Theorem]] is named. Pythagoras was one of the [[Presocratic Philosophy|Presocratic Philosophers]]. He was also an [[astronomer]] and a [[musician]]. Pythagoras believed in the [[reincarnation]] of human souls as animals, and consequently kept a strictly [[vegetarian]] diet.
'''Pythagoras''' lived approximately from 582 to 507 BC. He was a [[Greeks|Greek]] [[mathematician]] and [[philosopher]], for whom the [[Pythagorean Theorem]] is named. Pythagoras was one of the [[Presocratic Philosophy|Presocratic Philosophers]]. He was also an [[astronomer]] and a [[musician]].
Pythagoras sought to reduce music and astronomy to numerical patterns. He believed in a [[concept]] of translating musical notes into mathematical equations and vice versa called Pythagorean tuning by use of the ratio 3:2. He also believed that the mathematical [[Orbit|motions of the planets]] in [[outer space]] produced a cosmic musical symphony that he called the harmony of the spheres. He was one of the first people to realize that [[Venus]] seen as the morning star and Venus seen as the evening star were actually the same planet.
==Historical placement==
The first Greek author whose birth and death dates are known is Solon, who lived from 638 BC to 539 BC, so Solon and Pythagoras may have watched one or more of the 51st through the 60th Olympic Games, which began in 776 BC, in the same audience.
Pythagoras would have been born just after the king of Babylon had finally crushed Judea (and began besieging Tyre), a fate from which God, by His wrath at Judea's scorn since sometime during the reign of Solomon in 970-931 BC, refused to spare them (2 Chron. 36:16).
So while to the Greeks Pythagoras lived during the very first phase of its history following their Dark Age after the Homeric and Hesiodic poets and during the [[Levantine War]], by that point, history by year had already been well-established for centuries in Judea, making Pythagoras subject to the kind of historical analysis today that barely would have existed in Greece at the time.
==Doctrine==
Pythagoras believed in the [[reincarnation]] of human souls as animals, and consequently kept a strictly [[vegetarian]] diet. Pythagoras sought to reduce music and astronomy to numerical patterns. He believed in a [[concept]] of translating musical notes into mathematical equations and vice versa called Pythagorean tuning by use of the ratio 3:2. He also believed that the mathematical [[Orbit|motions of the planets]] in [[outer space]] produced a cosmic musical symphony that he called the harmony of the spheres. He was one of the first people to realize that [[Venus]] seen as the morning star and Venus seen as the evening star were actually the same planet.
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