Pythagoras Press™ began as the imprint for selected books by Wallace B. Mendelson MD dealing with the history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. Over time it has expanded to other areas including a broader history of science, as well as studies of creativity, and now includes fiction by Miho Madarame. All books are available on Amazon, and are publicized primarily under
the name of Medical Book Buys (medicalbookbuys@gmail.com).
A few words about the imprint: It is named after Pythagoras, born in sixth century BC Greece, and who may have been the first person to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom. Although most famous for his Pythagorean Theorem in trigonometry, his thought influenced many other areas. It is said that in listening to five blacksmiths hammering at a forge, he developed his first notions of harmony, and also formulated a method of tuning musical instruments. One of his beliefs was that the sun, planets and moon move in a harmonic manner which produces an inaudible but universal music. While this has been interpreted many different ways, we at Pythagoras Press view this metaphorically: we concur in the more general notion that there is a kind of beauty which can be perceived in the study of nature. We have tried to publish books which are not only scientifically accurate, but which are written in such a way that they express the pleasure and beauty which can be glimpsed in the study of medicine and science.
The picture at the top of the home page is an Albion Printing Press made by Henry Watts of London, in the Radstock Museum. It is taken from Wikimedia Commons, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 unported license.
