Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 41
he brotherhoodfounded by Py-thagoras provedso offensive to thegovernment thatit was dispersedbefore the deathof the master.Pythagoras fled toMegapontum, a sea-port lying to thenorth of Crotona,and there he diedabout 501 B.C.1For two centuries after Pythagoras geometry passedthrough a period of… … Fanciful Portrait of PythagorasCalandris Arithmetic, 1491 A BRIEF HISTORY OF GEOMETRY 31 of the science may be seen from the fact that CEnopidesof Chios, who flourished about 465 B.C., and who hadstudied in Egypt, was celebrated because he showedhow to let fall a perpendicular to a line, and how…
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