samos

This discussion leaves unclear the the role of Pythagoras of Samos in the discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem.

Milo of Croton, trained by Pythagoras of Samos (the mystical mathematician), won 6 consecutive Olympic Games over 24 years.

Anaxagoras (400s BC) and Aristarchus of Samos put forward heliocentrism.

I should say, Aristarchus is the ideal of maximizing information from minimal data: >Aristarchus of Samos (Samos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea) lived from about 310 to 230 BC, about 2250 years ago.

Eratosthenes says that Pythagoras of Samos won with long hair during the 48 th Olympiad; Duris represents this as Pythagoras being excluded, challenging the men, and beating many of them.

So it still took human quite some time to come with a compelling helio-centric model to cast some grabbable explanation of it all, even if you take Aristarchus of Samos as a pionner in this field.

Throughout history various people have debated this topic and I know more about it from my Greek history class by accident then anything - Aristarchus of Samos was well known for debating for it and others following did try to prove it etc.

E, there is a reference from Archemedes' book "The Sand Reckoner" of a heliocentric system described by Aristarchus of Samos.

I should say, Aristarchus is the ideal of maximizing information from minimal data: "Aristarchus of Samos (Samos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea) lived from about 310 to 230 BC, about 2250 years ago.

I searched for "long hair" and found only this: >The man with long hair at Samos’: They say there was a Samian boxer with long hair who went to Olympia and won after being mocked by his opponents for looking like a woman; he became proverbial.

Interestingly, in the same text, Iamblichus, who studied with Porphyry and seems to have been a devoted Pythagorean, says in his Life of Pythagoras: "From the family and alliance of this Ancaeus, founder of the colony [of Samos], were therefore descended Pythagoras's parents Mnesarchus and Pythais."

From before 550bc on the island of Samos, it was an irrigation tunnel through a mountain.

It was in this milieu that the philosopher Pythagoras received his mathematical education on Samos.

He was (reportedly, we know very little of him) born on Samos, an island near the coast of Turkey.