e transient forms. We have seen that this was the great question of the day. may well have thought he saw the world-process from water and back to water again going on before his eyes. The phenomenon of evaporation naturally suggests that the fire of the heavenly bodies is kept up by the moisture they draw from the sea. Even at the present day people speak of "the sun drawing water." Water comes down again in rain; and lastly, so the early cosmologists thought, it turns to earth.
             2. Pythagoreans and Numbers and their relationship to the material world- the arche for the pyth. was numbers b/c of music and geometry, harmony expressed numberically, thru harmony is the beautiful arrangement/fitting together, 10 was holy number, seen in nature a lot, generation of kosmos from limited and unlimited numbers, Pythagoreans explained the elements as built up of geometrical figures, implied that empty space or air existed outside the world, and that it entered into it to separate the units
             a. Interpertations of P's on #'s-
             i. Resemblance Formulation- things imitate/resembele numbers in some way
             ii. Identity Formulation- things are #'s (pyramid=4=fire, cube=6=earth, etc..)
             iii. Composition Formulation- things are comoposed of numbers Problem: have to say numbers are size, weight and shapes
             iv. Principles Formulation- principles of numbers are the principles of the things that are, numerical order imposes limits (or order) on unlimited
             3. Pythagoreans important discovery about ha
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