The music of Pythagoras : how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space /: how an ancient brotherhood cracked the code of the universe and lit the path from antiquity to outer space. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kitty Ferguson.
• Other Names: Ferguson, Kitty
• Contents: 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 on to us" -- 10. From Aristotle to Euclid -- 11. The Roman Pythagoras -- 12. Through neo-Pythagorean and Ptolemaic eyes -- 13. The wrap-up of antiquity -- pt. III. Eighth--twenty-first centuries A.D. -- 14. "Dwarfs on the shoulders of giants" : Pythagoras in the Middle Ages -- 15. "Wherein nature shows herself most excellent and complete" -- 16. "While the morning stars sang together" : Johannes Kepler -- 17. Enlightened and illuminated -- 18. Janus face -- 19. The labyrinths of simplicity -- Epilogue : music or silence -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Walker
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages), illustrations, maps, music
• Subjects: 182/.2; History -- Ancient -- General; Philosophy -- History; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Philosophy; Rezeption; Musiktheorie; Zahlentheorie; Biography: science, technology & medicine; Griechenland (Altertum); Electronic books; History; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780802779632; 0802779638
• Related ISBNs: 9780802716316; 0802716318
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-353) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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