Spherical earth pythagoras biography
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Pythagoras and first hypothesis about Earth’s size
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The name of Pythagoras takes pride place in the history of science; he is credited with several important scientific hypotheses, which later proved to be true.
Spherical earth pythagoras biography
Perhaps the most important of his theories is the assertion that the earth is not flat, but round. How Pythagoras was able to come to such a conclusion - a cornerstone of cartography – is a mystery. The Pythagoreans, developing ideas suggested by the wizard, built around his spherical earth a new space system; while they rejected in many respects all previous concepts, including concepts of Pythagoras.
They left the earth spherical, but abandoned the geocentric hypothesis, relegating the Earth from the center position of the Universe to the status of one of the planets - the same as Jupiter and the sun. Then they designed a system in which celestial bodie