[139] Meyer, i, 186; ii, 635. [↑]
[140] Fairbanks, pp. 145, 151, 155, etc. [↑]
[143] Prof. Burnet insists (introd. p. 30) that “the” Greeks must be reckoned good observers because their later sculptors were so. As well say that artists make the best men of science. [↑]
[144] Metaph. i, 5; Fairbanks, p. 136. “It is quite safe to attribute the substance of the First Book of Euclid to Pythagoras.” Burnet, Early Greek Philos. 2nd ed. p. 117. [↑]
[145] Diog. Laërt. Philolaos (bk. viii, ch. 7). [↑]
[146] L. U. K. Hist. of Astron. p. 20; A. Berry’s Short Hist. of Astron. 1898, p. 25; Narrien’s Histor. Acc. of the Orig. and Prog. of Astron. 1850, p. 163. [↑]
[147] See Benn, Greek Philosophers, i, 11. [↑]
[148] Diog. Laërt. in life of Philolaos; Cicero, Academica, ii, 39. Cicero, following Theophrastus, is explicit as to the teaching of Hiketas. [↑]