{"id":14731,"date":"2015-09-09T13:33:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14731"},"modified":"2015-09-09T13:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:33:04","slug":"book-report-pythagoras-by-dimitra-karamanides-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/book-report-pythagoras-by-dimitra-karamanides-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Pythagoras<\/i> by Dimitra Karamanides (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1404205004\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1404205004&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/pythagoras.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m currently reading a children&#39;s book. About Pythagoras. I&#39;m conflicted about humble bragging about it<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Director (@QAHatesYou) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QAHatesYou\/status\/641366243660791808\">September 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I was referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1404205004\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1404205004&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a>, a children&#8217;s (or young adult) book in a series on ancient philosophers that includes volumes on Archimedes, Aristotle, Euclid, Plato, and Socrates.  The volume istelf is an ex-library book, which means it got cashiered from the library in under 8 years.  The book is in great shape; I wonder, and fear, what they made room for by putting it in the used book sale.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, as it is a young adult book, it&#8217;s chock full of large print, maps, graphics, and tangentally related photographs.  But it gives a high-level overview of the (purported) life of Pythagoras and the thought and impact of the Pythagorean society&#8217;s research into mathematics and music.  It dovetails nicely with Copleston&#8217;s <em>History of Philosophy<\/em> that I&#8217;m reading.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I read the book and wouldn&#8217;t mind reading the others in the series, but I see this particular volume goes for $30 or more on Amazon.  Heavens, I think I&#8217;ll just look for more of them at the Christian County Library book sale in the coming years.  I have plenty of other things to read in the interim, including eight volumes of the Copleston work.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=1404205004&#038;asins=1404205004&#038;linkId=NYQBMYF2WHG4UXPX&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I tweeted: I&#39;m currently reading a children&#39;s book. About Pythagoras. I&#39;m conflicted about humble bragging about it &mdash; The Director (@QAHatesYou) September 8, 2015 I was referring to this book, a children&#8217;s (or young adult) book in a series on ancient philosophers that includes volumes on Archimedes, Aristotle, Euclid, Plato, and Socrates. The volume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14732,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14731\/revisions\/14732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}