Archytas

Diogenes Laertius lists three other writers with the name Archytas (VIII 82).

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

Aristotle and his pupil Eudemus do not explicitly call Archytas a Pythagorean and appear to treat him as an important independent thinker.

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

He specifically labels Archytas 'solution as dysmêchana, “hardly mechanical.”

Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

There's a story about an ancient Greek philosopher, who was a friend of Plato's, called Archytas.

Boston.com Top Stories 2011

Pythagoreans, such as Archytas of Tarentum, retained their political influence over the cities of Magna Graecia.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

There were mathêmatici such as Archytas who did serious research in the mathematical disciplines and natural philosophy but who also lived an ascetic life that emphasized self-control and avoidance of bodily pleasure.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

Aristotle was probably describing the views of fifth - and fourth - century Pythagoreans such as Archytas of Tarentum, under whom the doctrine of a universe ordered by the same numerical proportions that govern musical harmonies was developed.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968

Take cases such as Archytas 'duplication of the cube, Brunelleschi's discovery of the physical principle of the catenary, Nicholas of Cusa's

LaRouche's Latest 2009

De Docta Ignorantia, and was already clear in the work of Pythagoreans such as Archytas, and of Plato, the actual experimental demonstration of this underlying principle of all competent modern physical science, is owed to the concrete work of Kepler.

LaRouche's Latest 2009

Iamblichus is reported to have made use of the considerations of Archytas when it was appropriate in the attempt to demonstrate the overall agreement between Aristotle and the Pythagorean doctrine.

Commentators on Aristotle Falcon, Andrea 2009