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Title Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans : a brief history / Charles H. Kahn.
Author Kahn, Charles H.
Published Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub., c2001.
Description xi, 195 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Format text; unmediated; volume
ISBN 0872205754 (pbk.)
0872205762 (cloth)

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and indexes.
Contents The Pythagorean question -- Pythagoras and the Pythagorean way of life -- Pythagorean philosophy before Plato -- Pythagorean philosophy in the time of Archytas and Plato -- The New Pythagorean philosophy in the early academy -- The Survival of Pythagoreanism in the Hellenistic age -- The Pythagorean tradition in Rome -- The neopythagorean philosophers -- The Pythagorean heritage -- The Pythagorean tradition of the occult and the supernatural -- Transmigration and vegetarianism -- Mathematics, music, and astronomy.
Summary This portrait of the Pythagorean tradition includes an account of the neo-Pythagorean revival and ends with Johannes Kepler on the threshold of modernism.
Subjects (Topics) Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.
Bib utility control no. 46394974
OCLC no. (old) 318433989

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Hillsdale College Mossey Library - Main Book Collection - 2nd floor B243 .K34 2001 AVAILABLE
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University of MI Dearborn 3rd Floor B243 .K34 2001 AVAILABLE
Western Michigan Univ Waldo [general] B243 .K34 2001 AVAILABLE

 


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