41. JAPANESE KITE COLLECTION which refers to the ` flying dove of archytas of tarentum, and in which the as we have seen, to the Greek mathematician archytas of tarentum, who, http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et3m-tkkw/history5.html

Last up date:1998/08/01 History fHistoryf was copied from " KITES " written by David Phlham and published by Penguin Books Even though its origins are obscure, it is generally accepted that the kite was first invented in China long before the beginnings of written history. It seems probable however that some cultures discovered the principles of kite flying quite independently, whilst others developed existing patterns to suit their own requirements. Silk was being produced in China as early as 2600 B.C. and as bamboo cane was in abundance it does not seem an unreasonable conjecture that kites were being flown by the Chinese around 1000 B.C. Many theories have been put forward as to the original inspiration of the kite, ranging from runaway sails from a fishing boat to a Chinese farmer's hat being carried off by the wind. While all theories must remain speculative, in an early text the famous Chinese engineer Kungshu Phan of the fourth century B.C. is credited with the invention of a wooden bird that flew for three days without descending. This is generally accepted as having been a kite; while another well documented account from the second century A.D. refers to the wooden bird of Chang Hang, which appears to have been a rudimentary ornithopter with mechanized wings.

42. JAPANESE KITE COLLECTION One tradition holds that kites were invented by archytas of tarentum, a Greekscientist in the 5th century BC, but they have been in use among Asian peoples http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~et3m-tkkw/nepal-01.html

Last up date:1998/11/08 Kite-Flying Heritage in Nepal by Mr.Nirmal Man Tuladhar Seasonal Kite-flying Kite-flying in Nepal is seasonal and is associated with one of the biggest festivals, Dasain (Mohani in the Newari language of the Newars of the Kathmandu valley). Mohani is the Newari name for the local version of the widespread South Asian harvest festival dedicated to Goddess Durga, which in Nepal and generally elsewhere in South Asia is called Dasain. Devi is considered the Divine Mother Goddess who liberates the suffering people from the miseries of Evil. The longest, most auspicious and joyous time of year, Dasain is celebrated all over the country by all castes and creeds of both Buddhists and Hindus during the bright lunar fortnight ending on the day of the full moon in late September or early October. By this time the monsoon rains should have been over and the rice harvest been completed. The weather is pleasant - neither hot nor cold. The sky is clear and blue. The cool wind blows. This is the most favourable weather for flying kites. The kite-flying season lasts for a month. Tradition and Social Belief One tradition holds that kites were invented by Archytas of Tarentum, a Greek scientist in the 5th century BC, but they have been in use among Asian peoples from time immemorial.

43. Taranto - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia archytas of tarentum (428 BC 347 BC), philosopher, mathematician, astronomer,statesman, strategist and commander-in-chief of the army of Taranto; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentum

Wikimedia needs your help in its 21-day fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$ 125,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Taranto From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Tarentum Map of Italy showing Taranto in the bottom right Taranto is a coastal city in Apulia , southern Italy . It is the capital of Province of Taranto and is an important military and commercial port. According to the 2001 census, it has population of 201,349. Its coordinates are . Its altitude is 15 metres above sea level, with a surface area of 217 km². The postal code is 74100, the phone prefix is 099, and the fiscal code L049. Taranto is an important commercial and military port. It has well-developed steel and iron foundries, oil refineries, chemical works, some shipyards for building warships, and food-processing factories. Taranto history dates back to the 8th century BC when it was founded as a Greek colony. The ancient city was situated on a peninsula, protected by a helm; the modern city has been built over the ancient Greek necropolis. The islets S. Pietro

44. "Technology And Spiritual Progress" By Arne Wettermark" It is told of archytas of tarentum, philosopher and mathematician, contemporaryof Plato, that he had constructed a wooden dove, which by means of an http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/sc-wett.htm

Technology and Spiritual Progress By Arne Wettermark It is told of Archytas of Tarentum, philosopher and mathematician, contemporary of Plato, that he had constructed a wooden dove, which by means of an ingenious mechanism could fly, flap its wings and remain airborne for a considerable time. Archytas, who lived 400 B.C., is also supposed to have invented the screw, the crane and various hydraulic machines. Some time later the philosopher Aristotle relates the common use in his time of robots, which he defined as "an apparatus wherein certain parts are set in motion by an external contact with another portion of the apparatus." When Marcellus in the year 212 B.C. besieged Syracuse, the Romans suffered heavy losses through machines and instruments constructed by Archimedes: cranes armed with gigantic tongs that, from the city walls, grasped the enemy's ships, raised them in the air and then dropped them; catapults that caused a hail of gigantic rocks on the infantry. There is even said to have been a large burning glass, by means of which ships could be ignited and burnt. (Cf. Time magazine, November 26, 1973; this procedure was successfully repeated by Greek naval personnel in waters near Athens.)

45. Chapter 16: Archimedes Among the earlier ones were archytas of tarentum, Plato s geometry teacher,Hippocrates of Chios, who tried to fit together all the rules, and Theodorus of http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/arch.htm

Selections from Julia E. Diggins, String, Straightedge, and Shadow Viking Press, New York , 1965. (Illustrations by Corydon Bell) 16. A ROYAL ROAD, AFTER ALL During the 4th century B.C., Greek geometry burst its bonds and went on to the tremendous discoveries of the "age of giants." And Greek culture, too, burst from the mainland of Hellas and spread to most of the eastern Mediterranean. Both developments were connected with the romantic figure of Alexander the Great. After Plato's time, teachers and alumni from the Academy had gone on to found schools of their own. In particular, Plato's most famous associate, the great philosopher Aristotle, had set up the Lyceum in Athens, and started the systematic classification of human knowledge. And Aristotle's most renowned pupil was the warrior king Alexander of Macedon, who tried to conquer the world. In thirteen years, Alexander extended his rule over Greece proper, and Ionia, Phoenicia, Egypt, and the vast Persian domains as far as India. Then he died, and his empire broke up. But throughout those far-flung lands, he had founded Greek cities and planted the seeds of Greek civilization-the Greek language, Greek art, and, of course, Greek mathematics. Mathematicians traveled with his armies. And there is even a

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47. World InfoZone - Greece Facts archytas of tarentum (428 350 BC) was a mathematician whose work inspiredEuclid s The Elements, a leading mathematical work. http://www.worldinfozone.com/facts.php?country=Greece

48. Pythagoreanism In the fourth century there existed a friendship between a leading Pythagoreanand archytas of tarentum, a statesman and brilliant mathematician, http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/pythagoreanism.html

Back to Home Page or Contents Page or Past and present beliefs or Index Pythagoreanism An ethical, religious, and mystical system of teaching founded by Pythagoras in the sixth century BC. Those holding to such teaching were called Pythagoreans. Their first society or brotherhood was established in Croton about 530 BC. The teaching exerted political influence in Croton and in other city-states throughout the region. By the fifth century BC Pythagorean societies in southern Italy had became involved in the fierce fighting between the aristocracy and the democratic forces of government. When the democratic party gained control it fiercely turned on the Pythagoreans in their settlements and burned them. Those that survived fled back to the Greek mainland and settled around Thebes and Phlius. About this time in the fifth century BC the Pythagoreans separated into two distinct groups called the Acusmatici (from akousma , meaning "oral precept") whose members emphasized the observation of the special Pythagorean way of life taught by the master himself. The second group was the Mathematici (meaning "students of theoretical subjects"), who prsued interests in arithmetic, the theory of music, astronomy, and cosmology. The Mathematici group eventually became closely associated with the doctrine of Plato and his followers who established the Platonic Academy. The Acusmatici became wandering ascetics finally joining the Cynics of the fourth century BC.

49. The Complete History Of The Discovery Of Cinematography - The 4TH CENTURY BC archytas of tarentum. It is documented that this philosopher madesome sort of bird made of wood, that which apparently moved in the air http://www.precinemahistory.net/900.htm

50. Calvinesque Connections - Australian Sound Design Project Work and music theorist archytas of tarentum (in southern Italy). Archytas was afriend of Plato s, and he proposed a very unique and beautiful version of http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/web/biogs/P000343b.htm

Australian Sound Design Project Work Home Browse Search Previous ... Next Calvinesque Connections (1999) Related Entries Gallery Performance Location: The Tower, Ripponlea Estate, Victoria, Australia By Warren Burt Details A performance for unamplified voice and live computer by Warren Burt in The Tower, Ripponlea Estate, run daily from 21 - 28 November as part of ìRecent Ruinsî. The following is the text handed out the audience at each performance: Related Entries for Calvinesque Connections Artist Burt, Warren Site Ripponlea Estate Works by Same Artist Natural Rhythm (1983) Summerlake (1999) Shaman - In Memoriam Terrance McKenna (2000) Top of Page Prepared by: Iain Mott Created: 23 September 2002 Modified: 24 September 2002 Published by The University of Melbourne Comments, questions, corrections and additions: i.mott@unimelb.edu.au Prepared by: Acknowledgements Updated: 11 November 2004 http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/web/biogs/P000343b.htm Top of page Australian Sound Design Project Home Browse Search

51. Hegel's History Of Philosophy archytas of tarentum, the celebrated mathematician, Philolaus and others; but also of Archytas and other Pythagoreans of Tarentum, to whom Dionysius http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpplato.htm

2. Plato and the Platonists Chapter III. First Period, Third Division: Plato and Aristotle. THE development of philosophic science as science, and, further, the progress from the Socratic point of view to the scientific, begins with Plato and. is completed by Aristotle. They of all others deserve to be called teachers of the human race. A. Plato. O would that I were Heaven, [Diog. Laërt. III, 5,29.] At a later date, therefore, he actually refused to be the lawgiver of other States, though they had made application to him for that very purpose; amongst these applicants were the inhabitants of Cyrene and the Arcadians. It was a time when many of the Greek States found their constitutions unsatisfactory, and yet could not devise anything new. Now in the last thirty years [from the lectures of 1825] agrafa dogmata peri tagaqon These last two difficulties having been disposed of, if we would likewise solve the first mentioned, we must proceed to describe the form in which Plato has propounded his ideas, keeping it, on the other hand, distinct from Philosophy proper, as we find it with him. The form of the Platonic philosophy is, as is well known, the dialogue. The beauty of this form is highly attractive : yet we must not think, as many do, that it is the most perfect form in which to present Philosophy; it is peculiar to Plato, and as a work of art is of course to be much esteemed. In the first place, scenery and dramatic form belong to what is external. Plato gives to his Dialogues a setting of reality, both as regards place and persons, and chooses out some particular occasion which has brought his characters together; this in itself is very natural and charming.

52. Dr. Waggle - and two main figures emerge Philolaus of Croton and archytas of tarentum . Archytas is an important figure in his own right for two reasons His http://www.philosophy.ilstu.edu/ljwaggl/phil254/pythagoras.htm

Dr Waggle's Website PHIL 254 PHIL 112 PHIL 238 IDS 121 ... Home PHI 254: ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL PHILOSOPHY Waggle Section Pythagoras According to the tradition, Philosophy has two points of origin: Thales of Milesia and Pythagoras of Samos.  This division goes as far back as Diogenes Laertius, and he uses these two figures as the central division of schools of philosophy in his text. We are told more about Pythagoras, about his life, and his character, than about any other pre-Socratic philosopher.  The school of thought to which he gave his name lasted for more than a millennium, and a number of texts from later Pythagoreans have survived.  In spite of these things, Pythagoras himself is the most obscure and perplexing of all the early thinkers.  The following historical information we can say with most certainty is true.  Pythagoras was born on the island of Samos around 570 BCE.  It is said that he traveled and studied with the priests of Egypt, the thinkers at Babylon, and with the Magi of Persia.  He left Samos around 530 BCE to escape the rule of the tyrant Polycrates, and emigrated to Croton in Southern Italy.  At Croton, he founded a community of like-minded followers, apparently on a religious/mystical basis, and this community had a substantial impact on the political life of Croton.  Some twenty years later, near 510 BCE, there was an uprising in Croton, and many Pythagoreans were driven out, many others were killed throughout Southern Italy.  Pythagoras, himself, took santuary in a temple at Metapontum where he starved to death in 494 BCE.

53. Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek. Ångströmbiblioteket - Nyförvärv archytas of tarentum Pythagorean, philosopher, and mathematician king / Carl A.Huffman. Cambridge, UK ; New York Cambridge University Press, 2004. http://www.ub.uu.se/linne/ang/jun05.htm

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54. Plato [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] In the Seventh Letter, we learn that Plato was a friend of archytas of tarentum,a wellknown Pythagorean statesman and thinker (see 339d-e), http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/plato.htm

Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.E) Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. Known as the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. His earliest works are regarded as the most reliable of the ancient sources on Socrates. His later works, including his most famous work, the Republic, blend ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics into an interconnected and systematic philosophy. It is most of all from Plato that we get the theory of Forms, according to which the world we know through the senses is only an imitation of the pure, eternal, and unchanging world of the Forms. Plato's works also contain the origins of the familiar complaint that the arts work by inflaming the passions, the ideal of "Platonic love," and the myth of Atlantis. Table of Contents (Clicking on the links below will take you to those parts of this article) 1. Biography a. Birth b. Family c. Early Travels and the Founding of the Academy ... 8. Suggestions for Further Reading 1. Biography Back to Table of Contents a. Birth

55. Math History - Pre-historic And Ancient Times About 375BC, archytas of tarentum develops mechanics. He studies the classicalproblem of doubling the cube and applies mathematical theory to music. http://lahabra.seniorhigh.net/pages/teachers/pages/math/timeline/MpreAndAncient.

Math History Timeline Pre-historic and Ancient Times 1,000,000 B.C. - 500 A.D. Math History Prehistory and Ancient Times Middle Ages Renaissance Reformation ... 20th Century ... non-Math History Prehistory and Ancient Times Middle Ages Renaissance Reformation ... External Resources About 30000BC Palaeolithic peoples in central Europe and France record numbers on bones. About 25000BC Early geometric designs used. About 4000BC Babylonian and Egyptian calendars in use. About 3400BC The first symbols for numbers, simple straight lines, are used in Egypt. About 3000BC Babylonians begin to use a sexagesimal number system for recording financial transactions. It is a place-value system without a zero place value. About 3000BC Hieroglyphic numerals in use in Egypt. About 3000BC The abacus is developed in the Middle East and in areas around the Mediterranean. A somewhat different type of abacus is used in China. About 1950BC Babylonians solve quadratic equations.

56. Archytas Takes A Bow Plato suddenly remembered that his good friend archytas of tarentum, whom he hadjust seen the day before, had devised a diatonic scale in which this http://users.bigpond.net.au/d.keenan/sagittal/gift/Episode2.htm

Gift of the Gods Episode Two Archytas Takes a Bow Dionysus was beginning to delight in his talent for identifying problems (or creating them if he couldn’t find any), and he now pointed out that we were facing a dilemma: If I were to join the group as "Hermes, famed Messenger of the Gods" (as he put it), either nobody would take me seriously, or they would be so absorbed with trying to persuade me to reveal my "true" identity that it would be difficult for me to get them to concentrate on the notation. We agreed that I would need to assume an alias. Artemis, Apollo and Hermes As Artemis reached the end of the messages for April she could not help noticing a subject thread proclaiming "DAVE KEENAN’S MIRACLE SCALE" initiated by Paul Erlich, nor for that matter, one (in mock retaliation) titled "PAUL ERLICH’S AMAZING 11-LIMIT GENERATOR" by Dave Keenan, nor a third one titled "MIRACLE OF MIRACLES" by Paul Erlich, all expressing excitement about the remarkable characteristics of a "MIRACLE" tuning that had just been discovered jointly by Dave and Paul. As we read through these messages, I could not help but lament, "What a name for a tuning! If only we had come up with that." But as we read through additional subject threads that went on for weeks discussing the possibilities of the new MIRACLE tuning, we learned that it was originally discovered over a quarter-century earlier by George Secor, whom they honored by agreeing to name the Miracle generating interval the "secor". Unfortunately (for them, but fortunately for us), no one seemed to have been able to contact the honoree to inform him of this. "By Jove!", Apollo exclaimed. "Hermes, I believe we’ve found an alias for you! This is our chance to give these folks a real miracle – a notation by divine revelation!"

57. Timeline Of Flight: The Dream Of Flight (A Library Of Congress Special Presentat archytas of tarentum is reported to have made a steampropelled pigeon. c.1250 AD Roger Bacon, English cleric, writes about mechanical flight. 1485-1500 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/wb-timeline.html

The Library of Congress Exhibitions American Treasures HOME Timeline of Flight Find in American Treasures Exhibition Exhibitions Web Pages All Library of Congress Pages Overview The Dream The Achievement Timeline of Flight ... Credits 1000 B.C.E. Kite is invented in China. Manoscritti di Leonardo da Vinci Sul Volo degli Uccelli e Varie Altre Materie Paris: E. Rouveyre, 1893. (22.1) c. 852 B.C.E. English King Bladud is apparently killed attempting to fly. c. 400 B.C.E. Archytas of Tarentum is reported to have made a steam-propelled pigeon. c. 1250 A.D. Roger Bacon, English cleric, writes about mechanical flight. Leonardo da Vinci designs flying machines and parachute. Francesco de Lana Terzi publishes a design for lighter-than-air ship. Giovanni Borelli, Italian mathematician, concludes human muscle is inadequate for flight.

58. Arciniegas, Germán - Columbia Encyclopedia® Article About Arciniegas, Germán Archytas Archytas (crater) archytas of tarentum archytas of tarentum ARCI ARCIC ARCIC Arcidae arciform arciform Arcimboldo http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Arciniegas, Germán

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59. Eudoxus Eudoxus studied at Plato s Academy and was a student of archytas of tarentum.He spent over a year in Egypt and then, on his return, established a school http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/ancientgreecescience/eudoxus

Eudoxus Scientists Home Page Anaxagoras Archimedes Aristarchus ... Pythagoras Eudoxus was born in 408 B.C. in Cnidus. He was a Greek geometer and astronomer. Eudoxus studied at Plato's Academy and was a student of Archytas of Tarentum. He spent over a year in Egypt and then, on his return, established a school that competed with Plato. There is ample evidence to suggest that Eudoxus had little respect for Plato's analytic ability. Eudoxus proposed a heliocentric system for the solar system; a very important contribution. Other important contributions were to the theory of proportion, where he made a definition of equal ratios similar to cross multiplying, and early work on integration with the theory of exhaustion. Eudoxus also devised a theory of planets carried on glassy spheres that were nested around the Earth in mountings like compass gimbals: rotations on these explained observed motions. The kampyle curve was studied by Eudoxus also in relation to the classical problem of duplication of the cube. Eudoxus found formulas for measuring pyramids cones and cylinders. Books V and XII of Euclid's Elements are attributed to Eudoxus by some experts. In 355 B.C. Eudoxus died in Cnidus.

60. Ancient History Sourcebook: M. Tullius Cicero: On The Republic, Book 1 I imitate the famous archytas of tarentum, who, when he came to his villa, andfound all its arrangements were contrary to his orders, said to his steward http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/cicero-republic1.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: M. Tullius Cicero: from On the Republic [Thatcher Introduction]: On the Republic. Book I. Then Laelius said: But you have not told us, Scipio, which of these three forms of government you yourself most approve. Scipio: Laelius: I think so, too, but yet it is impossible to dispatch the other branches of the question, if you leave this primary point undetermined. Scipio: We must, then, I suppose, imitate Aratus, who, when he prepared himself to treat of great things, thought himself in duty bound to begin with Jupiter. Laelius: Why Jupiter? And what is there in this discussion which resembles that poem? Scipio: Why, it serves to teach us that we cannot better commence our investigations than by invoking him whom, with one voice, both learned and unlearned extol as the universal king of all gods and men. Laelius: How so? Scipio: Do you, then, believe in nothing which is not before your eyes? Whether these ideas have been established by the chiefs of states for the benefit of society, that there might be believed to exist one Universal Monarch in heaven, at whose nod (as Homer expresses it) all Olympus trembles, and that he might be accounted both king and father of all creatures; for there is great authority, and there are many witnesses, if you choose to call all many, who attest that all nations have unanimously recognized, by the decrees of their chiefs, that nothing is better than a king, since they think that all the gods are governed by the divine power of one sovereign; or if we suspect that this opinion rests on the error of the ignorant, and should be classed among the fables, let us listen to those universal testimonies of erudite men, who have, as it were, seen with their eyes those things to the knowledge of which we can hardly attain by report.

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