-Born about 569 BC in Samos, Ionia, Greece.
-Mathematician and Astronomist
-Thought that everything related back to math and that everything could be
predicted through it and was measured in rythmic patterns or circles.
-One of the first to say that the Earth was round (along with Galileo), a theory that was
later proved by Aristotle.
-Believed that the earth was a perfect sphere and that it was the centre of universe.
-Discovered that the morning star and the evening star were both the same object, the planet Venus.
-Pythagoras' followers called themselves Pythagoreans.
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