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

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.

Online resource (volumes, 37-[1] page ; in-8).

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

The golden verses of Pythagoras . Translated from the Greek, by N. Rowe, Esq; With A poem on the late glorious successes, &c. and an Ode for the New-Year, MDCCXVI. By the same hand.

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.

22 unnumbered pages, 162, 15 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; (12mo)

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.

Online resource (xxxvi, 88, 15 pages, 22 cm).

Tabula Cebetis graece, arabice, latine item Aurea carmina Pythagorae, cum paraphrasi arabica auctore Iohanne Elichmanno cum praefatione Cl. Salmasii.

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

The golden verses of Pythagoras . Translated from the Greek, by N. Rowe, Esq; With A poem on the late glorious successes, &c. and an Ode for the New-Year, MDCCXVI. By the same hand.

Tabula Cebetis graece, arabice, latine item Aurea carmina Pythagorae, cum paraphrasi arabica auctore Iohanne Elichmanno cum praefatione Cl. Salmasii.

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

The science of music. 2/4.

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

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

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

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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 golden verses of Pythagoras . Translated from the Greek, by N. Rowe, Esq; With A poem on the late glorious successes, &c. and an Ode for the New-Year, MDCCXVI. By the same hand.

Tabula Cebetis graece, arabice, latine item Aurea carmina Pythagorae, cum paraphrasi arabica auctore Iohanne Elichmanno cum praefatione Cl. Salmasii.

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

The science of music. 2/4.

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

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

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

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