Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC)

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The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Mochetti after Raphael.

The school of Athens: a gathering of Greek philosophers disputing with Saint Paul the Apostle. Engraving by G. Ghisi, 1550, after Raphael.

Mathematicians: Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristoxenus and Iamblichus. Engraving after J. van Steegeren, 1667 or 1668.

Del vitto pitagorico per uso della medicina. Discorso / D' Antonio Cocchi.

Pythagoras. Line engraving by J. Dambrun, 1799, after S. Maréchal.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Pythagoras. Engraving attributed to H. David after C. Vignon.

Pythagoras. Etching by Remondini.

The School of Athens: a key to the figures in the centre of the composition. Engraving by G. Volpato, after Raphael.

The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by J. & T. Bartlett, 1835, after Raphael.

Pythagoras. Line engraving by B. Bartoccini after C. C. Perkins.

The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Volpato after G. Cades after Raphael.

The science of music. 2/4.

Alcmeone di Crotone : prima di Pitagora di Samo / Renato Bèttica Giovannini.

Numbers : their occult power and mystic virtues / by W. Wynn Westcott.

Les Vers dorez de Pythagoras, et Phocylides / ,... Traduicts en partie, & en partie imitéz, par Barthélemy Fournier,...

Constantini Lascaris Byzantini De octo partibus orationis liber primus. Eiusdem de constructione liber secundus. Eiusdem de nomine & uerbo liber tertius. Eiusdem de pronomine secundum omnem linguam, & poeticum usum opusculum. Hæc omnia ... Cebetis tabula & graeca & latina, opus morale, & utile omnibus, & praecipue adulescentibus ... Oratio dominica & duplex salutatio ad beatiss. Virginem. Symbolum apostolorum. Euangelium Diui Ioannis Euangelistæ. Carmina aurea Pythagoræ. Phocylidis poema ad bene, beateque uiuendum. Omnia haec cum interpretatione latina. Introductio perbreuis ad hebraicam linguam

The knowledge of things unknowne. Shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations ... Together with the husband mans practice, or prognostication for ever as teacheth Albert, Alkind, and Ptolomey with the shepheards prognostication of the weather, and Pythagoras his wheele of fortune / [Godfridus].

Letters from an Arabian philosopher to a nobleman of Greece ; containing very curious and rare observations concerning the philosophy, physick, divinity and customs of the Eastern philosophers / Translated from an ancient Latin manuscript communicated by P. Grinau ... To which are added, the Entertainments of an Indian king with Pythagoras: and Alexander's conference with Dindimus the Brachman. Extracted out of Palladius.

The knowledge of things unknown : shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations ... Together with the husbandman's practice ... With the shepherd's prognostication for the weather, and Pythagoras his wheel of fortune / [Godfridus].

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Pythagoras

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Les Vers dorez de Pythagoras, et Phocylides / ,... Traduicts en partie, & en partie imitéz, par Barthélemy Fournier,...

The knowledge of things unknown : shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations ... Together with the husbandman's practice ... With the shepherd's prognostication for the weather, and Pythagoras his wheel of fortune / [Godfridus].

Pythagoras

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Images featuring Pythagoras

Works from the collections

Les Vers dorez de Pythagoras, et Phocylides / ,... Traduicts en partie, & en partie imitéz, par Barthélemy Fournier,...

The knowledge of things unknown : shewing the effects of the planets and other astronomical constellations ... Together with the husbandman's practice ... With the shepherd's prognostication for the weather, and Pythagoras his wheel of fortune / [Godfridus].

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