Word: pythagorean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This play trades in esoterica. The prologue featured fake French in a thin-historicism that was quickly evaporated by the sight of black maskers exhibiting a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, to a chorus of ringing phones...
...Comet were all recorded in China. Zhang Heng, of the Han Dynasty, invented a seismograph to determine the location of earthquakes, and the celestial globe that showed the movement of the sun, moon and other stars. Mathematicians in the pre-Qin days put forward the proposition known as the Pythagorean theorem in the West today. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the 4th century A.D., China's mathematician Zu Chongzhi calculated the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to be 3.1415926. China's silk-weaving, porcelain-making, metallurgy and ship-building reached the world...
...Pythagorean Festival Orchestra Annual Season Concert--featuring soloists and a number of choral societies in Mozart's The Great Mass in C Minor and Britten's Ceremony of Carols. A Merrimack ARTS Concert Series at Merrimack College in North Andover. Tickets are $12 and are available by calling...