ARCHYTAS held the view that sound is created by the collision of moving bodies and is transmitted as pressure through the air. Higher tones correspond to a faster movement of sound, and lower tones to …

It contains original texts, English translations and a full commentary for all the fragments of his writings and for all testimonia concerning his life and work. In addition there are introductory essays on …

This indeed will be proved securely later. For the proof which Archytas puts forth is too loose. At any rate, his proof is of the following sort: Let there be, he says, a superparticular ratio A : B. I take C : …

ARCHYTAS OF TARENTUM Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King CARL A. HUFFMAN Professor of Classics, DePauw University

Archytas’ construction is based on a result assigned to Hippocrates (one generation before Archytas) which reduces the problem of doubling a cube to the finding of two means proportional.

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It contains original texts, English translations and a full commentary for all the fragments of his writings and for all testimonia concerning his life and work. In addition there are introductory essays on …