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Robert Hahn
Prof. Robert Hahn has broad interests in the history of ancient and modern astronomy and physics, ancient technologies, the contributions of ancient Egypt and monumental architecture to early Greek philosophy and cosmology, and ancient mathematics and geometry of Egypt and Greece. Every year, he gives "Ancient Legacies" traveling seminars to Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. (https://ancientlegacies.org/)
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Should the Pythagorean theorem be renamed the Thalean theorem?
Thales may have known the famous theorem perhaps as much as half a century before Pythagoras.
Thales: Ancient Greeks built the cosmos with right triangles
The ancient Greeks were obsessed with geometry, which may have formed the basis of their philosophical cosmology.
Hidden philosophy of the Pythagorean theorem
Pythagoras may have believed that the entire cosmos was constructed out of right triangles.