Descript |
xi, 195 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 |
Subject |
Pythagoras and Pythagorean school |
ISBN/ISSN |
0872205754 |
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9780872205758 |
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0872205762 |
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9780872205765 |
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