Pythagoras (570 BC - 495 BC)

Scientist, philosopher

Pythagoras was an important philosopher and scientist who lived in the VI Century b.C. . Very few is known about his biography and many aspects of his live are legend; it is believed that Pythagoras deeply contributed to prepare the ground of modern science and hence to the mechanics. Pythagoras, in fact, is remembered for having founded the Pytagoric School where the mathematical knowledge and applications to science and mechanics were developed. The school was also a centre for scientific consulting. Pythagoras though that that science an religion were connected and that the science was a way to purify oneself because ignorance was considered by him as a fault.

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Pythagoras

Curriculum vitae

* 569 BC - 571 BC	Samos	nacido
535 BC		Goes to Egypt
525 BC		He is taken to Babylon as prisoner
519 BC - 521 BC		He leaves Babylon
519 BC - 521 BC		Arrives at Crotone and founds a school
519 BC - 521 BC		He leaves Crotone
† 494 BC - 496 BC	Metaponto (Magna Graecia, modern Southern Italy)	fallecido

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Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_8230004.html

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Pythagoras (570 BC - 495 BC)