Paths of the Ancient Sages:
A Pythagorean History
Peter Kingsley, Ph.D.
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Pythagoras the Teacher:
From Samos to Metapontum
Giulia Minicuci, adapted by Mary Jones, S.R.C.
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The School of Pythagoras
Ruth Phelps, S.R.C.
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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
Anonymous
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Pythagoreans and Sculptors: The Canon of Polykleitos
Hugh McCague, Ph.D., F.R.C.
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Images: Doryphoros; Vitruvian Man; Halle Berry, 2004
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Pythagoras and Music
Melanie Richards, M.Mus., S.R.C.
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Images: Arithmetica; Pythagoras Experimenting with Weights; Monochord; Pythagorean Table; The Creative Word |
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The Neo-Pythagoreans at the Porta Maggiore in Rome
Lisa Spencer, M.A.O.M., S.R.C.
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Images: Neopythagorean Basilica; Maenads with the Head of Pentheus;The Psyche in Transformation;Cupids with Butterflies; Eros and the Chariot; Liber Abbaci, Codice Magliabechiano Manuscript |
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Silence
Jean Guesdon, S.R.C.
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Music of the Spheres and Pythagorean Numerology
Frater X
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Image: Music of the Spheres; The Divine Monochord; Spherical Conception of the Universe
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Apollonius: History or Fable?
Ben Finger, Jr.
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Image: The Wandering Philosopher; Constantine Manasses; Birth of Buddha at Lumbini; The Seven Liberal Arts: Pythagoras as a symbol for Arithmetic; Ruins of the Temple of Artemis |
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Reviewing our Acts
Ralph M. Lewis, F.R.C.
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Images: Pythagoras Experimenting with the Pitch of Tuned Bells and Water-filled Cups |
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A Pythagorean Bookshelf
Staff of the R+C Research Library
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Life is Number: the Universe is Music
Caterina Autelitano, adapted by
Mary Jones, S.R.C.
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Images: Pythagoreans Celebrate Sunrise; The Dyad; Pythagorean Tetrad; Pythagorean Tetrakty; Pythagoras Experimenting; School of Athens; Music of the Spheres; Commentary on the Somnium Scipionis; Divine Monochord
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Philosophical and Scientific Reflections on the Pythagorean Tetraktys
Giuseppe Chindemi, adapted by
Mary Jones, S.R.C.
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Images: Pythagorean Tetraktys and the Hebrew Tetragrammaton; Last Supper; Vitruvian Man; Monad; Dyad; Triad; Tetrad; Tetraktys; Universe ; Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev; Artist’s conception of a water molecule; Structure of DNA
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The Pythagorean Philosophy of Numbers
Silvano Leonessi, adapted by Mary Jones, S.R.C
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Images: Portrait of Aristotle; Iamblichus of Chalchis; Number as a Universal Principle; Einstein’s Portrait; Geometric Figure |
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Pythagorean Teachings Across the Centuries
Angela Tripodi, adapted and expanded by the R+C Research Library Staff and Friends
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Images: Temple Dedicated to Hera Lacinia ; Portrait of Socrates; Alexander Visits the Sage Plato; Bust of Aristotle; Sphinx ; Virgil ; Diogenes Laertius;Averroes and Porphyry; Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism; Open cluster of the Pleiades; Anatomy of Melancholy; On the Consolation of Philosophy; Music and Pythagoras; Fibonacci Spiral; Ritratto di Frà Luca Pacioli; Arabic numerals; Pythagoras at Chartes |
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Egyptian Numerology: the Pythagorean Triangle and Its Esoteric Meaning. Historic Notes and Comments on Sacred Geometry
Antonietta Francini, S.R.C., M.D. with Benefactor Taciturnus, F.R.C.
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Images: Vesica Piscis;HSL on Giza Plateau; Egyptian Triangle; Triangle;Metatron; Solids; Agrippa; Frater and Soror Lewis
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Examinations of the Golden Verses
Antoine Fabre d’Olivet, Translated by Nayán Louise Redfield (1917), and adapted for modern readers.
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Images: Fabre; Pythagoras; Aten; Timaeus; Plato
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