3 résultats pour "pythagorean"

• Pythagorean Theorem.

• Western Philosophy.

  the popular belief in personal deities, but he failed to explain the way in which the familiar objects of experience could develop out of elements that are totally differentfrom them. Anaxagoras therefore suggested that all things are composed of very small particles, or “seeds,” which exist in infinite variety. To explain the way in whichthese particles combine to form the objects that constitute the familiar world, Anaxagoras developed a theory of cosmic evolution. He maintained that the activ...

• Archytas

  sense-experience in the Timaeus (67b, 80a ), Plato appears to rely on Archytas to explain hearing and sound (where again the speed of the propagation of sound is confused with frequency: higher notes are said to reach the earmore quickly than lower notes). In his treatment of harmonics proper, Archytas further developed Pythagoreanmusical theory (see Philolaus §5 ). He calculated the numerical ratios of the intervals in all three scales of the tetrachord (diatonic, chromatic and e...