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- Philolaus (l. c. 470 to c. 385 BCE) was a Pythagorean philosopher who claimed that fire was the first cause of existence and heat the underlying source of human life. He is best known for his pyrocentric model of the universe, which replaced Earth as the center of the solar system with a central fire, around which all else revolved.
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Philolaus was a philosopher of the Pythagorean school, named after the Greek thinker Pythagoras (fl. c. 530 bc). Philolaus was born either at Tarentum or, according to the 3rd-century-ad Greek historian Diogenes Laërtius, at Croton, in southern Italy.
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Philolaus (/ ˌ f ɪ l ə ˈ l eɪ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φιλόλαος, Philólaos; c. 470 – c. 385 BC) [1] [2] was a Greek Pythagorean and pre-Socratic philosopher. He was born in a Greek colony in Italy and migrated to Greece.
Sep 15, 2003 · Philolaus of Croton, in southern Italy, was a Greek philosopher/scientist, who lived from ca. 470 to ca. 385 BC and was thus a contemporary of Socrates. He is one of the three most prominent figures in the Pythagorean tradition, born a hundred years after Pythagoras himself and fifty years before Archytas. He wrote one book, On Nature, which ...
Apr 18, 2022 · Philolaus (l. c. 470 to c. 385 BCE) was a Pythagorean philosopher who claimed that fire was the first cause of existence and heat the underlying source of human life. He is best known for his pyrocentric model of the universe, which replaced Earth as the center of the solar system with a central fire, around which all else revolved.
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Jul 8, 2024 · The Pythagorean Philolaus was the precursor to Copernicus in that he believed the planets moved around a central flame, rather than Earth being the center of the universe. While he was ahead of his time, there is no evidence that the Pythagoreans thought the earth was round, and they did not believe it rotated.
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Philolaus (ca. 470 B.C.E. – ca. 385 B.C.E., Greek: Φιλόλαος) was a Greek Presocratic philosopher and one of the three prominent Pythagoreans. He was born approximately one hundred years after Pythagoras himself and fifty years before Archytas, and though characterized as a Pythagorean, he propounded several original theories of his own.
Philolaus (; Ancient Greek: Φιλόλαος, Philólaos; c. 470 – c. 385 BC) was a Greek Pythagorean and pre-Socratic philosopher. He was born in a Greek colony in Italy and migrated to Greece.
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