'Pythagoras'

'About Pythagoras (VI snow BC) remained little accredited schooling. It is know that he was born on the island of Samos , probably in his youth visited Miletus , where he studied low Anaximander, maybe do ​​more distant travel . make up in adulthood, philosopher travel to Croton city and founded a sort out of religious Modena - Pythagorean Brotherhood, which has spread its deviate in numerous Greek cities of grey Italy. Fraternity sustenance was surrounded by mystery . On its breach Pythagoras legends that attend to fall in more or less basis for a: the great scientist was at least a great political leader and a visionary. The basis of the teachings of Pythagoras was the look in the transmigration of instincts and harmonious domain order . He believed that music for the soul and mental work, so skipped sovershestvovaniya Pythagoreans believed in the cardinal arts - arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. Pythagoras himself is the founder of the t heory of numbers, and turn up a theorem is known to every student today. And if Anaxagoras and Democritus in their views of the homo developed the vagary of Anaximander physical reasons for rude(a) phenomena, Pythagoras shared his belief in the numeral harmony of the cosmos .\nThe Pythagoreans held sway in the Greek cities of Italy a few decades, thence were defeated and withdrew from politics. However, often of what gave them Pythagoras, to live and had a huge encroachment on science. like a shot it is very fractious to separate the parting of Pythagoras himself from the achievements of his followers. This applies especially to astronomy, in which there have been several basically new ideas. They post be judged from the surviving meager information about views afterward Pythagoreans and the teachings of philosophers have been influenced by the ideas of Pythagoras.'