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The Life of Pythagoras

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    Harmony of Sphere and Music

    Harmony of Sphere and Music
    Pythagoras is also credited with the discovery that the intervals between harmonious musical notes always have whole number ratios.
    The mystical Pythagoras was so excited by this discovery that he became convinced that the whole universe was based on numbers, and that the planets and stars moved according to mathematical equations, which corresponded to musical notes, and thus produced a kind of symphony, the “Musical Universalis” or “Music of the Spheres”.
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    Freedom Baby

    Freedom Baby
    After being held captive for five years he obtained freedom and returned to Samos
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    Taken Capture

    Taken Capture
    He was made prisoner by the King of Persia and was taken to Babylon
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    Traveling Time

    Traveling Time
    He left Samos and travelled to Egypt when Polycrates took control over Samos.
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    Birth of Pythagoraas

    Birth of Pythagoraas
    Pythagoras Patel A.K.A. Pythagoras of Samos
    Born on the Island of Samos
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    The life of Pythagoras

  • Moving On

    Moving On
    Pythagoras again decided that he was going to move away from Samos.....so he went to Italy.
    Here he founded a religious school and had several followers who adopted his philosophical principles. He had inner circle of followers known as the ‘Mathematikoi’.
  • An Everlating Impression

    An Everlating Impression
    Sadly all good things must pass....Pythagoras died in Metapontum, Italy. However, there are no records of how he died. It was either suicide, murder by Cylon's men, or he starved to death
  • The Theorem

    The Theorem
    Shortly after his arrival in Italy, Pythagoras started to make discoveries. It is here in Croton that Pythagoras discovered, or at least found proof of his well-known Pythagorean Theorem.
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    Pythagoras Life