Did you know Pythagoras began a religion in 550bce that believed the earth circled the sun?

Question

Aristotle wrote: They say that the whole heaven is limited, the opposite
to what those of Italy, called the Pythagoreans, say; for these say that
fire is at the centre and that the earth is one of the stars, and that
moving in a circle about the centre it produces night and day. And they
assume yet another earth opposite this which they call the counter-earth,
not seeking reasons and causes for phenomena, but stretching phenomena to meet certain assumptions and opinions of theirs and attempting to arrange
them in a system. . And farther the Pythagoreans say that the most
authoritative part of the All stands guard, because it is specially fitting
that it should, and this part is the centre; and this place that the fire
occupies, they call the guard of Zeus, as it is called simply the centre,
that is, the centre of space and the centre of matter and of nature.

A 1000 years later the Christian Church was still torturing and throwing scientists that stated the earth circled the sun. Stating that the Bible was the truth and Earth was the center of the universe.

A 1000 years later the Christian Church was still torturing and throwing scientists into prison that stated the earth circled the sun. Stating that the Bible was the truth and Earth was the center of the universe.

Answer 1

Actually, no one knows for sure whether Pythagoras even existed, on account of he never wrote anything down. However, there was a Pythogorean Order (not exactly a religion, per se, as much as a sort of social club with cultic undertones). Members were forbidden from eating beans. Also, their most closely guarded secret was that an isoceles right triangle that was one unit on each side had a hypotenuse that couldn't be measured (since the Greeks had no representation for irrational numbers).

Nobody with half a brain ever really swallowed the whole Earth Is The Center Of The Cosmos myth. If you're using a model with the sun orbiting the earth and trying to predict how many days are in a year, for example, you don't quite come up with 365.26. Which is why Gregory had to stuff a couple of extra days into the calendar in the mid seventeenth century, hence the Gregorian Calendar. You can do that sort of thing when you're the Pope: Yesterday was Monday, but tomorrow will be Thursday. Because I said so, and I'm infallible.

Answer 2

No it was a sect of the Catholic Church,not the Christian Church.
The Bible says "He formed the Earth and hung it on nothing" That's at a time when Greece said it was Atlas holding up the earth and the Hindus said it was a stack of elephants.It also says about God,"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth".
These Catholics are the same group that would kill you for reading a Bible or possesing one.Saying it was the Christians is like saying David Koresh was the Pope.

Answer 3

He must have gotten the idea from the BIBLE.

Is. 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...

Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Prov. 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...

Strong’s 2329. chuwg, khoog; from H2328; a circle:--circle, circuit, compass.

Answer 4

Of course it doens't circle the son it sort of ellipses around it. The church was just waiting until Kepler got it right. ( oh, wait, they threatened him, too, Nevermind)

Answer 5

poor pythagoras...what else could he have done?..the previous tyrant christian clergy were not ready to believe it...
infact thats what gave way to the reformation n prostestanism..similar practises

Answer 6

It was *NOT* religion; it was scientific knowledge. The greeks could provide evidence of it.

Answer 7

yes i believe