Ideas of Philolaus, by Theme

[Greek, 475 - 395 BCE, Born and lived at Tarentum, in southern Italy. Taught by Pythagoras.]

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

472	No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

473	There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things

1518	Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known

1519	Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited

469	Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical

476	Self-created numbers make the universe stable

27. Natural Reality / D. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

1787	Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Diog. Laertius]