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INVENTORS
THALES
FIRST TRUE
MATHEMATICIAN
USED MATH TO
CALCULATE THE
HEIGHT OF THE
PYRAMIDS
1ST KNOWN PERSON
TO STUDY ELECTRICITY
EXPLAINED NATURAL
PHENOMENA WITHOUT
USING THE GODS!
PYTHAGORUS
PYTHAGOREAN
THEOREM
ANAXIMANDER
EARTH HAD ONCE BEEN
COVERED ALL IN
WATER
PEOPLE HAD EVOLVED
FROM AN EARLIER
FORM (PERHAPS A
FISH)
AND THE FIRST KNOWN MAP
ALEXANDER THE GREAT’S LEGACY WAS THE
CULTURE OF LEARNING THAT HE SPREAD
THROUGH OUT HIS EMPIRE
MANY MEN MADE IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES
ARISTARCHUS
“THE MATHEMATICIAN”
WHO WAS THE FIRST TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE
UNIVERSE WAS HUGE!
THE EARTH REVOLVES ON IT’S
AXIS
THAT WE HAVE A HELIOCENTRIC
SOLAR SYSTEM
BUT THE WORLD WAS NOT
READY FOR HIS IDEAS!
IT WOULDN’T BE UNTIL
THE 1500S AND THE
WORK OF NICHOLAS
COPERNICUS THAT THE
WORLD BEGAN TO
ACCEPT THAT THE
EARTH REVOLVED
AROUND THE SUN!
ERASISTRATUS
FOUNDED THE SCHOOL
OF ANATOMY IN
ALEXANDRIA
THE BRAIN IS THE CENTER OF THE NERVOUS
SYSTEM
DISCOVERED THE PULSE
AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN DIAGNOSING ILLNESS
THE HEART PUMPS BLOOD THROUGH THE
BODY
LIQUIDS ARE TAKEN INTO THE ESOPHAGUS AND
THEN PASSES INTO THE BLADDER
HIPPARCHUS
THE FATHER OF
TRIGONOMETRY
CREATED TRIGONOMETRY
CREATED
TRIGONOMETRY
TABLES
TRIGONOMETRY DEALS
WITH THE
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE SIDES
AND ANGLES OF A
PLANE OR SPHERICAL
TRIANGLES
DISTANCE BETWEEN SUN AND THE
EARTH
PREDICTED ECLIPSES
DUE TO HIS STUDIES OF THE MOVEMENTS OF THE PLANETS
EUCLID
KNOWN AS THE
“FATHER OF
GEOMETRY”
BUT HE DIDN’T INVENT IT
HE CAME UP WITH SOME THEOREMS, COMPILED THE WORKS
OF OTHERS
AND PEOPLE USED IT FOR CENTURIES!
ERATOSTHENES
NICKNAMED “BETA”
CALCULATED THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE
EARTH
AND WAS ONLY OFF BY ABOUT 200 MILES!
HE CREATED THE MOST ACCURATE MAP
KNOWN
AND BELIEVED THAT ALL THE OCEANS WERE CONNECTED
ARCHIMEDES
GREATEST SCIENTIST
OF ANTIQUITY
APPROXIMATED PIWITHOUT FORMULAS!
JUST USED CALCULATIONS OF POLYGONS TO GET AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE!
COMPOUND PULLEY
ARCHIMEDES SCREW
ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE
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