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28 Cards in this Set
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specialized in comedy of everyday life |
Menander |
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most reowned hellenistic playwright |
Menander |
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librarian at alexandria |
Eratostenes |
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used the sun to accurately measure the circumference of the earth to 1% |
Eratostenes |
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scientist that concluded that the Earth was smaller than the sun |
Aristarchus |
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assumed the stars were very far from earth |
Aristarchus |
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proved Aristotle wrong |
Aristarchus |
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father of geometry |
Euclid |
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went to Plato's Academy |
Euclid |
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active at the library |
Euclid |
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wrote the textbook "The Elements of Geometry" |
Euclid |
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invented the compound pulley and the cylinder screw |
Archimedes |
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tested the first lever |
Archimedes |
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discovered the principle of buoyancy |
Archimedes |
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his face is on the Field's medal, a crater on the moon is named after him, and there is an asteroid named afterhim |
Archimedes |
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father of history |
Heredous |
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wrote about the Persian war |
Herodotus |
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means investigation |
historia |
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name two reasons that Herodotus's stories were not accurate |
1- Gods were in them 2- they were exaggerated |
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what did we learn from Herodotus |
1- leaders in military 2- social customs 3- religious stuff |
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wrote about the Peloponisian War |
Thucydides |
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used reasons and no gods in his work |
Thucydides |
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he could predict the solar eclipse with accuracy |
Thales |
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said that everything is made of water |
Thales |
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used whole numbers and ratios |
Pythagorus |
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taught that the world is round and spins |
Pythagorus |
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said people die of natural causes |
Hippocrates |
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name 3 things that Hippocrates said to practice |
1- hygine 2- lots of rest 3- good diet |
