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Philolaus of Croton
Philolaus of Croton
c. 470 BCE–c. 385 BCE · Croton (Magna Graecia)
Philolaus was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher of the 5th century BCE, associated with the southern Italian city of Croton. He is the earliest Pythagorean from whom written fragments survive and is known for a cosmology in which all things are ordered by number, and for the striking proposal that the Earth is not at the center of the universe but moves around a central fire. His authentic fragments are debated by scholars.
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A powerful Greek city of southern Italy (Magna Graecia) where Pythagoras founded his secretive brotherhood, fusing mathematics, music, and the transmigration of souls into a single way of life.
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