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Archytas
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Archytas (; ; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in Southern Italy. He was a scientist and philosopher affiliated with the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics and a friend of Plato.
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Archytas of Tarentum (430 BCE–345 BCE) was a male mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and musicologist. Born and died in Taras, he was associated with the movements of Pythagoreanism and Pre-Socratic philosophy. He wrote in Ancient Greek and was a student of Philolaus, while serving as a teacher to Eudoxus of Cnidus. Plato is listed as a significant person connected to him.
His work count is recorded as five, with notable titles including *Pythagore et la philosophie pythagoricienne*, *Prosōkratikoi*, and *L'educazione morale*. He is described in sources such as the *Nordisk familjebok* and the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*. Archytas has been referenced by 325 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- -430
- Died
- -345
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Pythagore et la philosophie pythagoricienne
- Pythagore et la Philosophie Pythagoricienne
- Pythagore et la philosophie pythagoricienne: contenant les fragments de ...
- Prosōkratikoi
- L'educazione morale
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 164
- Total plays
- 504
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Recent publications · Crossref
2 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “That tho' a Man were admitted into Heaven to view the wonderful Fabrick of the World, and the Beauty of the stars, yet what would otherwise be Rapture and Extasie, would be but melancholy Amazement if he had not a Friend to communicate it to.”
- “The unwritten laws of the gods were promulgated against depraved manners, inflicting a severe destiny and penalty on the disobedient; and these unwritten laws are the fathers and leaders of those that are written, and of the dogmas established by men.”
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Key facts
- Philosopher.region
- Western philosophy
- Philosopher.era
- Classical Greek philosophy
- Philosopher.image
- Archytas of Taras.jpg
- Philosopher.caption
- Bust from Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, once identified as Archytas, now thought to be Pythagoras
- Philosopher.name
- Archytas
- Philosopher.birth_date
- 435/410 BC
- Philosopher.birth_place
- Tarentum, Magna Graecia
- Philosopher.death_date
- 360/350 BC
- Philosopher.school_tradition
- Pythagoreanism
- Philosopher.notable_ideas
- Doubling the cubeInfinite universe
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Life
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- References
- Further reading
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Archytas (; ; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, music theorist, statesman, and strategist from the ancient city of Taras (Tarentum) in Southern Italy. He was a scientist and philosopher affiliated with the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics and a friend of Plato.
As a Pythagorean, Archytas believed that arithmetic (logistic), rather than geometry, provided the basis for satisfactory proofs, and developed the most famous argument for the infinity of the universe in antiquity.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Archytas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.