Ideas from 'On the Cosmos (lost)' by Philolaus [435 BCE], by Theme Structure

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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. Heart of Nature / 4. Pythagoreanism

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

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

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

26. Natural Theory / B. Concepts of Nature / 2. 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