Ancient Greek Science and Astronomy
The Ancient Greek culture has had such an impact on the world that no matter where you look you 're sure to find something Greek about it. Out of all the areas that the Greek culture is famous for there are two that tend to exert themselves into our own culture even today. That would be their Science and
Astronomy fields.
If one were to look up in a library books about ancient Greek science and astronomy they would have a mountain of books to sift through. There seem to be so many individuals who have contributed towards the great scientific and astronomic revelations that the list of names seems to go on and on. Many of the theories that were structured in the ancient Greek culture are still put to use today.
The goal of this paper is to point out and describe just a few ancient Greek individuals and their works that whom without their work we might never have advanced as far and as fast as we have technologically or mentally.
Sometimes described as the first pure mathematician, Pythagoras of Samos, was a very important developer of modern mathematics. Unfortunately there is, in comparison, little known about his and his followers ' achievements for they worked in a secret society where they kept strictly to themselves.
An odd note about the details of Pythagoras 's life is that the information that is written about him in early biographies is done so by authors who make him out to be a god-like being that has divine powers bestowed upon him. The information that can be collected on Pythagoras is of great historical importance due to how early of a record it is. Some believe this information to be accurate while others think of it as mere legend.
Pythagoras was the founder of a philosophical and religious school in Croton, which is a city on the east of the heel of Italy, where he wasthe head of a society that had a circle of close, loyal followers called mathematikoi. The mathematikoi never left the society, had no personal
Astronomy fields.
If one were to look up in a library books about ancient Greek science and astronomy they would have a mountain of books to sift through. There seem to be so many individuals who have contributed towards the great scientific and astronomic revelations that the list of names seems to go on and on. Many of the theories that were structured in the ancient Greek culture are still put to use today.
The goal of this paper is to point out and describe just a few ancient Greek individuals and their works that whom without their work we might never have advanced as far and as fast as we have technologically or mentally.
Sometimes described as the first pure mathematician, Pythagoras of Samos, was a very important developer of modern mathematics. Unfortunately there is, in comparison, little known about his and his followers ' achievements for they worked in a secret society where they kept strictly to themselves.
An odd note about the details of Pythagoras 's life is that the information that is written about him in early biographies is done so by authors who make him out to be a god-like being that has divine powers bestowed upon him. The information that can be collected on Pythagoras is of great historical importance due to how early of a record it is. Some believe this information to be accurate while others think of it as mere legend.
Pythagoras was the founder of a philosophical and religious school in Croton, which is a city on the east of the heel of Italy, where he wasthe head of a society that had a circle of close, loyal followers called mathematikoi. The mathematikoi never left the society, had no personal
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