Talk:Polykleitos

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Without any picure? Sorry, its impossible.--Mario todte 18:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Polyclitus would be a far more sensible transcription of this name. "Polykleitos" is fairly unusual and inconsistent with the normal Wikipedia practice of trancscribing ancient Greek names using the Roman rather than the modern Greek method - Thucydides is not referred to as Thoukydides nor is Herodotus referred to as Herodotos nor even is Cronus referred to as Kronos. Really a new article needs to be created for Polyclitus the sculptor and this page ought to redirect.131.111.8.103 22:23, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Info needs verifying
Polycletus (fl. c. 232 BC) was widely considered the greatest Greek sculptor of his time, even greater than Phidias. He lived and worked around Sicyon. One of his sculptures, of a bodyguard to the king of Persia, was so perfect that it was referred to as the Rule. He also designed buildings. (See Pausanias 2 & 6, Quintilian 12) - This was taken from the disambig page, not sure if it was meant to be the younger or elder. Diverman 05:48, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Square root of 2
Square root of 2 is 1,415 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 51.175.195.49 (talk) 19:52, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for spotting the error (mine, I typed 1.412 when I meant to type 1.4142). More precisely it is 1.41421356237 etc. I have corrected the typo. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:52, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Pythagorean mathematics
inserted this text (between existing text and the citation that supports it, please don't do that): "Tobin argues that this may be due to the influence of Pythagorean mathematics, which views numbers as a spatial and geometric identity rather than a quantitative one."

I have deleted it primarily because nowhere in his paper does he argue that, he merely reports earlier work by "some scholars": "Some scholars have suggested that the Canon was influenced by Pythagorean mathematics, which considered numbers as geometric entities, having spatial identity."

To be fair, Tobin has ten references to Pythagorean geometry throughout the paper and concludes by saying: "The system of proportion perfected in the Doryphoros was built upon the most basic elements of Pythagorean geometry, and within the Greek mathematical tradition."

and links it to his broader work on Greek architecture. It may be that that this could be mentioned (though I think it is really beyond the scope of this article) but if so, it needs its own paragraph and not be shoved in between existing sentences and their supporting citations. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 10:54, 19 April 2021 (UTC)