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Philolaus (/ ˌ f ɪ l ə ˈ l eɪ ə s /; 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.
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.
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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Philolaus (flourished c. 475 bc) 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 (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 (ca. 480 BC – ca. 385 BC, Greek: Φιλόλαος) was a Greek Pythagorean and Presocratic. He argued that all matter is composed of limited and unlimited things, and that the universe is determined by numbers.
Philolaus argued that the cosmos and everything in it was made up not just of the unlimiteds (continua that are in themselves without limit, e.g. earth or void) used as elements by other Presocratics, but also of limiters (things that set limits in a continuum, e.g. shapes).
