Technology, Math, and Science
Greek people were very interested in science as a way of organizing the world and making order out of chaos, and having power over some very powerful things like oceans and weather. From about 600 BC, a lot of Greek men spent time observing the planets and the sun and trying to figure out how astronomy worked. They got their first lessons from the Babylonians, who were very good at astronomy and also very interested in it. By the 400s BC, Pythagoras was interested in finding the patterns and rules in mathematics and music, and invented the idea of a mathematical proof. Socrates, a little bit later, developed logical methods for deciding whether something was true or not. In the 300s BC, Aristotle and other philosophers at the Lyceum and the Academy in Athens worked on observing plants and animals, and organizing the different kinds of plants and animals into types. Again, this was a way of creating order out of chaos.
Greece had many people who were important in these fields. Here are some of these people.
Archimedes-
Archimedes was the most famous mathematician and inventor of ancient Greece. Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. He is known for his formulation of a hydrostatic principle (known as Archimedes’ principle) and a device for raising water, still used in developing countries, known as the Archimedes screw.Archimedes was the most famous mathematician and inventor of ancient Greece. Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. He is known for his formulation of a hydrostatic principle (known as Archimedes’ principle) and a device for raising water, still used in developing countries, known as the Archimedes screw.
Euclid-
One of the earliest known mathematicians to have ever lived, Euclid of Alexandria was often regarded as the “father of Geometry”. Due to lack of earlier documentations, and the fact that most of the documents on the life of Euclid happen to have perished with time, a very little is known about his life. Euclid was an influential and active mathematician involved in the library of Alexandria, and that he lived in the time when Ptolemy One of the earliest known mathematicians to have ever lived, Euclid of Alexandria was often regarded as the “father of Geometry”. Due to lack of earlier documentations, and the fact that most of the documents on the life of Euclid happen to have perished with time, a very little is known about his life. Euclid was an influential and active mathematician involved in the library of Alexandria, and that he lived in the time of Ptolemy.
Pythagoras-
Pythagoras was born in 570 BC on the isle of Samos somewhere off the coast of present day Turkey. Legends has it that his earliest days were spent as a learning disciple under some of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of that time. All this while, he learnt a lot of secret teachings, taught himself to play the famous lyre and he could recite those epics by Homer just from memory. He then went on to travel the few centers of knowledge in the ancient world – from the ancient Egyptian secret societies, to the famous Babylon located in the present day Iraq, Pythagoras armed himself with enlightenment from the ancient world’s most powerful civilizations. o create dozens of mathematical and philosophical principles. They proved the Pythagorean theorem for calculating the area of a triangle. They even proposed the concept of the sun being at the center and the earth revolving around, almost 2000 years before it would be proved by the likes of Galileo and Copernicus. For obvious reasons, such activities miffed off a number of people in Greece, and a group of angry mob ended his life burning him to death.
Greece had many people who were important in these fields. Here are some of these people.
Archimedes-
Archimedes was the most famous mathematician and inventor of ancient Greece. Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. He is known for his formulation of a hydrostatic principle (known as Archimedes’ principle) and a device for raising water, still used in developing countries, known as the Archimedes screw.Archimedes was the most famous mathematician and inventor of ancient Greece. Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. He is known for his formulation of a hydrostatic principle (known as Archimedes’ principle) and a device for raising water, still used in developing countries, known as the Archimedes screw.
Euclid-
One of the earliest known mathematicians to have ever lived, Euclid of Alexandria was often regarded as the “father of Geometry”. Due to lack of earlier documentations, and the fact that most of the documents on the life of Euclid happen to have perished with time, a very little is known about his life. Euclid was an influential and active mathematician involved in the library of Alexandria, and that he lived in the time when Ptolemy One of the earliest known mathematicians to have ever lived, Euclid of Alexandria was often regarded as the “father of Geometry”. Due to lack of earlier documentations, and the fact that most of the documents on the life of Euclid happen to have perished with time, a very little is known about his life. Euclid was an influential and active mathematician involved in the library of Alexandria, and that he lived in the time of Ptolemy.
Pythagoras-
Pythagoras was born in 570 BC on the isle of Samos somewhere off the coast of present day Turkey. Legends has it that his earliest days were spent as a learning disciple under some of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers of that time. All this while, he learnt a lot of secret teachings, taught himself to play the famous lyre and he could recite those epics by Homer just from memory. He then went on to travel the few centers of knowledge in the ancient world – from the ancient Egyptian secret societies, to the famous Babylon located in the present day Iraq, Pythagoras armed himself with enlightenment from the ancient world’s most powerful civilizations. o create dozens of mathematical and philosophical principles. They proved the Pythagorean theorem for calculating the area of a triangle. They even proposed the concept of the sun being at the center and the earth revolving around, almost 2000 years before it would be proved by the likes of Galileo and Copernicus. For obvious reasons, such activities miffed off a number of people in Greece, and a group of angry mob ended his life burning him to death.