SOURCE: Edward Hussey, "Pythagoras and the Greek West," in The Presocratics, Duckworth, 1972, pp. 60-77.
In the following excerpt, Hussey examines evidence of the life of Pythagoras and the immediate impact of his thought on Graeco-Roman medicine, mathematics, astronomy, music, and philosophy.
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