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Chapter 4 Scientists and Thinkers Flashcards

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Mathematician who established the principles of geometry

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Pythagoras

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Sculptor, teacher of Plato, believed in absolute right and wrong

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Socrates

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Teacher of Aristotle - he believed Philosopher-Kings should run things

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Plato

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Father of History

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Herodotus

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First astronomer to believe that Earth revolved around the Sun

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Aristarchus

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Wrote over 200 books on government, science, health, and astronomy

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Aristotle

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Proved the Earth was round and calculated the circumference

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Erastosthenes

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Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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Mathematician who described plane geometry

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Euclid

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Inventor and mathematician who calculated pi

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Archimedes

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