Philolaus
Greek philosopher, astronomer and Pythagorean (c.470–c.385 BCE)
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ItalyHe placed fire at the center of everything and set the Earth spinning around it — not the Sun, but close enough to unsettle two thousand years of assumption. What survives of early Pythagorean cosmology survives mostly through him.
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Philolaus was born around 470 BC in a Greek colony in Italy, later migrating to Greece, and became the most outstanding figure in the Pythagorean school after Pythagoras himself. He may have been the first to commit Pythagorean doctrine to writing. His philosophy held that everything arose from the interplay of the limiting and the limitless, which combine in harmony. He argued that Earth was not the center of the universe, proposing instead a Central Fire around which all spheres — including the Sun and Earth — revolved. That cosmology, strange as it now reads, marks the earliest known step t…
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