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Ancient Epoch Scientists and Philosophers - Windows to the Universe

Ancient Epoch


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Archimedes
Aristotle
Democritus
En Hedu' Anna
Eratosthenes
Hipparchus
Hypatia
Plato
Ptolemy
Pythagoras
Socrates
Thales

Last modified July 19, 2001 by Jennifer Bergman.

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Archimedes

Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and engineer who lived between 287-212 B.C. His greatest contributions are in the field of geometry, where he did much work with circles and their properties. Legend...more

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived between 384-322 B.C. He was one of the greatest thinkers of the world and wrote on every major area of thought. Aristotle thought that the Earth was at the...more

Democritus

Democritus was a Greek philosopher who lived between 470-380 B.C. He believed that everything in the universe was made up of tiny, indestructible particles called atoms. Democritus had many remarkable...more

Eratosthenes

Eratosthenes was a Greek scientist. He lived from 276 to 194 B.C. He studied astronomy, geography, and math. Eratosthenes is famous for making the first good measurement of the size of the Earth. He lived,...more

Plato

Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived between 427-327 B.C. He founded the Academy in Athens, a school which made many important scientific discoveries in ancient times. Plato believed that knowledge...more

Ptolemy

Ptolemy was a Greek astronomer who lived between 85-165 A.D. He put together his own ideas with those of Aristotle and Hipparchus and formed a unified model of the universe. Ptolemy believed that the...more

Pythagoras

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who lived between 580-520 B.C. He believed that everything was related to mathematics and once said "all is number". Pythagoras started a school in Greece, which had...more

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