Pythagoras

Full Name-
Pythagoras 
Born-
570 B.C
Died-
495B.C

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  • It was said that he was the first man to call himself a philosopher ("lover of wisdom") and that he was the first to divide the globe into five climatic zones.
  • Pythagoras continued to be regarded as a great philosopher throughout the Middle Ages and his philosophy had a major impact on scientists such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton
  • No authentic writings of Pythagoras have survived to the present day and almost nothing is known for certain about his life.
  • According to a popular legend, after he discovered his which theorem(now called Pythagorous theorem), Pythagoras sacrificed an ox, or possibly even a whole hecatomb, to the gods. Cicero rejected this story as spurious because of the much more widely held belief that Pythagoras forbade blood sacrifices.

  • Famous For-

  1. Pythagorous Theorem
  2. Pythagorean tuning and Pythagorean hammers
  3. First to identify the morning star and the evening star as the same celestial object.

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