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Huffman, Carl, A.
Archytas of Tarentum:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge;
Date of Publication: 2005
Stock Code: 14743
First Edition. Large octavo, pp., 665. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Near fine. Archytas of Tarentum is one of the three most important philosophers in the Pythagorean tradition. He was a prominent mathematician, who gave the first solution to the famous problem of doubling the cube, an important music theorist, and the leader of a powerful Greek city-state. He is famous for sending a trireme to rescue Plato from the clutches of the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius II, in 361 BC. This 2005 study was the first extensive enquiry into Archytas' work in any language. £60.00