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Everything enters into a clear and stable harmony: the Pythago - rean aesthetic of numbers and configurations, the circle and sphere as types of perfection; and as the divine type of motion a steady eternal rotation, equivalent to the unmoveable.
COSMIC IMAGES H 1968
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The conception of harmony is central to the Pythago - rean account of what the artist may do to introduce intelligibility by definition into music.
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
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Still, Aristotle draws primarily upon nonmathe - matical sources, although he clearly values Pythago - rean speculation on art (Metaphysics Book XIII).
CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968
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That Empedocles was influenced by some Pythago - rean tradition we may assume if a famous fragment
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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Some time about the middle of the fifth century a wave of opposition swept the Pythago - reans out of office and into exile, if they came off with their lives.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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By the end of the century Pythagoreanism had acquired important tenets of which we have no trace in the early period but which continue to characterize Pythago - reanism thereafter.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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But it would appear that Speusippus was driven from his Platonic positions and took refuge in a profession of Pythago - reanism, a Pythagoreanism to which he himself had contributed.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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Pythagorean associations we see from the way in which he couples the names “Speusippus and the Pythago - reans” (Metaphysics 1072b 30, Nicomachean Ethics
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES PHILIP 1968
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