system based on the Central Fire, but they do believe that either he, or someone else in the late fifth century BC, created it. Another issue with attributing the whole of Pythagorean astronomy to Philolaus is that he may have had teachers who were associated with other schools of thought.

The system

In the Pythagorean view, the universe is an ordered unit. Beginning from the middle, the universe expands outward around a central point, implying a spherical nature. In Philolaus's view, for the universe to be formed, the "limiters"

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