How to Find the Height of Heaven
How the Chinese discovered the Pythagorean Theorem hundreds of years before Pythagoras
8 min readJul 26, 2020
Discoveries are often made by multiple people, but we tend to only celebrate one of those folks.
This is just as true for the theory of evolution (Wallace, but also Darwin), as it is for lightning rods (Diviš, but also Franklin), as it is…