Social+Studies+-+Pythagoras+Achievements

__**Pythagoras Achievements**__

**Pythagorean Theorem: **  It is unclear what achievements Pythagoras had due to the secrecy that his School was devoted to. There is also uncertainty about what he discovered and what his students may have discovered. Any physical evidence that may have been at the school was destroyed in war. The most famous contribution that Pythagoras is known for is the Pythagorean Theorem which is named after him. However, there is much evidence that suggest that he did not discover this theorem, but was the first to prove it. There is evidence that shows Indians and Egyptians used this theorem before him.

** The Earth was a Sphere: **

It is said that Christopher Columbus discovered that the Earth was round, but perhaps Pythagoras knew this first. In Astronomy Pythagoras taught that the Earth was a sphere at the center of the universe. He recognized that the orbit of the moon was inclined to the equator of the earth, and he was one of the first to realize that Venus as an evening star, was the same planet as the morning star.

 ** Music: **  He taught that the movements of the planets traveling through the universe created sounds, and could be perceived by those who were trained to hear them. This music of the spheres could be replicated using a single stringed instrument called the monochord. Pythagoras used the monochord to explain musical intervals and harmonics to his students. He taught how harmony may be produced when tuning the high and low notes in the octave, thereby laying the foundation for many of the theories and teachings that have come down through the musical traditions.