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description: More than two thousand five hundred years ago, in the sixth century BC, a group of arcane intellectuals came to prominence in classical Greece and its Mediterranean colonies. It was similar to a cult, having roots from the island of Samos where Pythagoras was born. Some modern scholars believe he was the first person to deduce that the Earth is spherical. If not, it was another individual within the Pythagorean community. Exactly where and when this happened, is unknown. But, the method of how it was accomplished, was likely based upon the following criteria. Firstly, he probably noticed how the Sun and Moon were circular. So, by suspicion the Earth was presumed the same, especially, after witnessing its curved shadow on the Moon’s surface during a lunar eclipse. Yet, these events do not prove the Earth is a sphere. They only suggest how it appears to be curved. So, the final visual evidence resulted by watching ships leave their harbor. When sailing away from Samos or anywhere else, the mast was always the last part of the craft to recede over the horizon. Most importantly, it didn’t matter in which direction the ship sailed. This observation set the proper condition to enable the correct deduction. If displaying the same curvature in all directions, the Earth was a sphere. This geometric logic cannot be denied. The Pythagorean method determines how a law of nature, better stated as an unknown reality or an absolute truth, can be deduced by pure thought. Experimentation is unnecessary. The Earth was proven to be spherical by observation and mental activity. Nobody from the Greek civilization attempted to sail around the world in a grand venture like the Portuguese navigator, Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the Philippine Islands by cannibals. Instead, the Pythagoreans perhaps sipped wine and conversed with each other about the ships sailing out to sea while strolling along the shoreline. The Pythagorean deductive process is a key feature of this work. It’s relative to a controversial individual within the coterie of distinguished thinkers, an inferred contemporary of Pythagoras by the name of Hippasus. He published a thesis around five hundred BC, entitled as “The Secret of the Sphere with Twelve Pentagons, the Dodecahedron.” However, a short time afterward, he drowned in a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea while the Pythagorean cult commented on the justice of his punishment. This negative attitude was based upon his contemptuous acts. Hippasus challenged the Pythagorean doctrine of secrecy while subsequently revealing to common folk the knowledge previously held by the initiated. This secret has not survived. To this day nobody knows what it represents. Many people are also unaware that an ancient yet sophisticated secret even exists. This testifies to the depth of the cult’s intent. They were notably successful at keeping everything cloaked. This is until now because the work of Hippasus has been exhumed by the Pythagorean deductive method itself. Courtesy of a modern author, it’s offered to mankind for contemplation since it seems profound. Strangely, in an indirect manner it contests contemporary hypotheses within the fields of physics and astronomy. Even the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin as it applies to the genome of the human species, receives intense pressure. As an offshoot, there is also a specific proposal which threatens modern religions by reducing them into nonsensical distorted fringe ideologies. With respect to the previously mentioned disciplines, all of this is due to a certain philosophy which the Pythagoreans attached to the dodecahedron. They mystically associated it with the cosmos. Based upon what the author presumes to understand about this subject due to thirty-five years of study, humankind is said to be teetering on a precipice. The nature of the secret is a revelation, signifying a transformation in thinking is poised to occur regarding humanity’s stature within the universe.
language: English
title: The Secret of the Sphere with Twelve Pentagons, the Dodecahedron