Screen LibraryThe music of Pythagoras：how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space
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| Main Authors: | |
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| Published: |
Walker,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 366 p.: ill., maps, music ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780802716316 (alk. paper) 0802716318 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | B502 |
| CLC: | B502.14 |
| Call Number: | B502.14/F352 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-353) and index. Acknowledgments -- Lifetimes and other significant dates -- pt. I. Sixth century B.C. -- 0. "At the hinge of legend and history" -- 1. The long-haired Samian -- 2. "Entirely different from the institutions of the Greeks" -- 3. "Among them was a man of immense knowledge" -- 4. "My true race is of heaven" -- 5. "All things known have number" -- 6. "The famous figure of Pythagoras" -- pt. II. Fifth century B.C.-seventh century A.D. -- 7. A book by Philolaus the Pythagorean -- 8. Plato's search for Pythagoras -- 9. "The ancients, our superiors, who dwelt nearer to the gods, have passed this word |