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I wish to thank all those friends who, during the years when I was researching and writing this book, have told me about ways—some of them odd and unexpected—that Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans have made an impact, or at least an appearance, in their own fields of study and interest. I also wish to thank my husband, Yale, for the help he has given me out of his own historical knowledge and library, his wonderful company on research journeys to Samos and Crotone, and his invaluable early critique of this book; Eleanor Robson, for her patient help in the area of Mesopotamian mathematics; John Barrow, for calling my attention to the “Sulba-Sûtras” and reconstructing the tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos for me out of a dinner napkin; the staff of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Crotone for their extraordinary helpfulness; and the librarians at the Chester Public Library, for their skill and willingness when I came to them with numerous unusual interlibrary loan requests.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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The Unlikely Partnership That Forever
Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens

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to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time

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Science, Religion, and the Search for God

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Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything

Kitty Ferguson is the author of the highly acclaimed
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; and
Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything
. She is also a Juilliard-trained professional musician.

CHAPTER 1

Pythagoras c. 570–500
B.C
.

Thales fl. c. 585
B.C
.

Anaximander 610–546
B.C
.

Diogenes Laertius fl. c.
A.D
. 193–217

Porphyry c.
A.D
. 233–306

Iamblichus of Chalcis c.
A.D
. 260–330

CHAPTER 2

Babylonian exile of the Hebrews 598/7 and 587/6 to 538
B.C
.

Rule of the Samian tyrant Polykrates 535–522
B.C
.

CHAPTERS 3–6

Pythagoras’ arrival in Croton 532/531
B.C
.

Croton defeats and destroys Sybaris 510
B.C
.

Death or disappearance of Pythagoras 500
B.C
.

Second decimation of the Pythagoreans 454
B.C
.

CHAPTER 7

Philolaus c. 474–399?
B.C
.

Parmenides 515 or 540–mid-5th century
B.C
.

Melissus early 5th century–late 5th century
B.C
.

Zeno of Elea c. 490–mid to late 5th century
B.C
.

Socrates c. 470–399
B.C
.

CHAPTER 8

Plato 427–347
B.C
.

Archytas 428–347
B.C
.

Dionysius the Elder c. 430–367
B.C
.

Dionysius the Younger 397–343
B.C
.

Aristoxenus of Tarentum fl. fourth century
B.C
.

CHAPTER 9

Socrates c. 470–399
B.C
.

Plato 427–347
B.C
.

CHAPTER 10

Aristotle 384–322
B.C
.

Theophrastus 372–287
B.C
.

Alexander the Great 356–323
B.C
.

Heracleides Ponticus 387–312
B.C
.

Dicaearchus of Messina fl. c. 320
B.C
.

Euclid fl. c. 300
B.C
.

CHAPTER 11

Cicero 106–43
B.C
.

Numa ruled c. 715–673
B.C
.

Ennius c. 239–c. 160
B.C
.

Marcus Fulvius Nobilior 2nd century
B.C
.

Cato the Elder 234–149
B.C
.

Pliny the Elder
A.D
. 23–79

Posidonius c. 135–51
B.C
.

Sextus Empiricus fl. 3rd century
A.D
.

Eudorus of Alexandria fl. c. 25 BC

Nigidius Figulus fl. no later than 98–27
B.C
.

Vitruvius fl. 1st century
B.C
.

Occelus of Lucania after Aristotle

CHAPTER 12

Eudorus of Alexandria fl. c. 25
B.C
.

Sotion 1st century
A.D
.

Seneca c. 4
B.C
.–
A.D
. 65

“Sextians” 1st century
A.D
.

Apollonius of Tyana 1st century
A.D
.

Alexander of Abonuteichos c.
A.D
. 110–170

Julia Domna died
A.D
. 217

Philostratus
A.D
. 170–c. 245

Philo of Alexandria 20
B.C
.–
A.D
. 40

Ovid 43
B.C
.–
A.D
. 17

Plutarch
A.D
. 45–125

Moderatus of Gades 1st century
A.D
.

Theon of Smyrna c.
A.D
. 70–130/140

Nicomachus fl. c.
A.D
. 100

Numenius of Apamea fl. late 2nd century
A.D
.

Ptolemy c.
A.D
. 100–c. 180

CHAPTER 13

Diogenes Laertius fl.
A.D
. 193–217

Porphyry c.
A.D
. 233–306

Iamblichus of Chalcis c.
A.D
. 260–330

Longinus
A.D
. 213–273

Plotinus
A.D
. 204–270

Macrobius
A.D
. 395–423

Boethius c.
A.D
. 470–524

CHAPTER 14

Hunayn 9th century

Brethren of Purity 10th century

Al-Hasan 10th century

Aurelian 9th century

John Scotus Eriugena c. 815–c. 877

Regino of Prüm died 915

Raymund of Toledo 1125–1152

King Roger of Sicily 1095–1154

Bernard of Chartres 12th century

Nicole d’Oresme 14th century

Nicholas of Cusa 1401–1464

Franchino Gaffurio 1451–1522

CHAPTER 15

Petrarch 1304–1374

Nicholas of Cusa 1401–1464

Leon Battista Alberti 1407–1472

Marsilio Ficino 1433–1499

Pico della Mirandola 1463–1494

Giorgio Anselmi 15th century

Nicolaus Copernicus 1473–1543

Andrea Palladio 1508–1580

Tycho Brahe 1546–1601

CHAPTER 16

Philipp Melanchthon 1497–1560

Tycho Brahe 1546–1601

Michael Mästlin 1550–1631

Johannes Kepler 1571–1630

CHAPTER 17

Vincenzo Galilei late 1520s–1591

Galileo Galilei 1564–1642

William Shakespeare c. 1564–1616

John Milton 1608–1674

John Dryden 1631–1700

Joseph Addison 1672–1719

René Descartes 1596–1650

Robert Hooke 1635–1703

Robert Boyle 1627–1691

Isaac Newton 1642–1727

Gottfried Leibniz 1646–1716

Carl Linnaeus 1707–1778

William Wordsworth 1770–1850

Pierre-Simon de LaPlace 1749–1827

Filippo Michele Buonarroti 1761–1837

Hans Christian Oersted 1777–1851

Michael Faraday 1791–1867

James Clerk Maxwell 1831–1879

CHAPTER 18

Bertrand Russell 1872–1970

Arthur Koestler 1905–1983