Book ID: CBB200934780

Metaphysics of the Pythagorean Theorem, The: Thales, Pythagoras, Engineering, Diagrams, and the Construction of the Cosmos out of Right Triangles (2018)

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Hahn, Robert (Author)


State University of New York Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 300
Language: English

Explores Thales’s speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams.

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Review Philip Thibodeau (2018) Review of "Metaphysics of the Pythagorean Theorem, The: Thales, Pythagoras, Engineering, Diagrams, and the Construction of the Cosmos out of Right Triangles". Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 177-184). unapi

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