In Pythagoras' harmony of the spheres, celestial bodies follow mathematical proportions that correspond to musical intervals.

The task Ferguson (Tycho & Kepler) takes on is formidable: to describe not only the ancient Greek mathematician and mystic Pythagoras, but also the entire sweep of the Pythagorean legacy, from his ...

Ancient people, as indicated by a few myths, knew of the vertebrate fossils from Samos, an island of Greece. The ancient Greeks interpreted these fossils as the remains of Neades, strange exotic ...

Poor old Pythagoras is slipping away from us. He was always a shadowy figure in Western thought -- his followers were secretive and he himself wrote nothing, as far as we know. Even in his own time ...