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Ideas of Philolaus, by Text
[Greek, 475 - 395 BCE, Born and lived at Tarentum, in southern Italy. Taught by Pythagoras.]
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435BCE
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On the Cosmos (lost)
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p.372
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1787
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Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Diog. Laertius]
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B02
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p.73
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469
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Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited
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B04
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p.111
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1518
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Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known
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B06
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p.111
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1519
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Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together
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B11
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p.75
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473
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There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things
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B11
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p.75
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472
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No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence
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B23
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p.77
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476
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Self-created numbers make the universe stable
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p.28
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22511
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Some reasonings are stronger than we are
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