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Fragments of Philolaus of Croton
The authentic fragments maintain that the cosmos is composed of unlimited and limiting things fitted together by a harmony, that everything known has number, and describe the musical scale in numerical ratios and a cosmos with a central fire around which the Earth revolves. It is the oldest testimony to Pythagorean science.
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Authorship note
A work by Philolaus (c. 470–385 BCE), a Pythagorean of the later fifth century BCE, not by Pythagoras. It is the first Pythagorean book on record and the main source of what Aristotle calls the doctrine of the Pythagoreans; some of the surviving fragments are spurious.
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English
Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic
Cambridge University Press, 1993
Translation: Carl A. Huffman
ISBN 9780521415255
Edición, traducción y comentario de los fragmentos y testimonios.
Other works by Pythagoras
- Golden Verses · 300
- Akousmata and symbola · 500
- On the Pythagorean Life (Iamblichus) · 300
- Life of Pythagoras (Porphyry) · 280
- Life of Pythagoras (Diogenes Laertius, Lives VIII 1–50) · 230
- Testimonies of his contemporaries (Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Ion of Chios, Herodotus) · 450
- Aristotle's testimonies on the Pythagoreans · 340
- Sacred Discourse (Hieros logos) · 300
- Books on Education, Politics and Nature · 300
- Letters of Pythagoras · 100
- Pseudo-Pythagorean writings · 200
Sources
- Huffman, Carl. «Pythagoreanism». The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta; primera publicación 2006, revisión sustancial del 5 de marzo de 2024.
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