Hippocrates Flashcards
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- Father of modern medicine
- Has credit for coining the Hippocratic Oath
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Hippocrates
2
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- Father of Geometry
- Wrote “The Elements” which is a book on geometry
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Euclid
3
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- The inventor of dialect
- Believed to be the 1st philosopher who dealt with the earliest account infinity
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Zeno
4
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- A founder of philosophy
- “All things are governed by atoms”
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Epicurus
5
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- Was born into medical family
- Was author of a book of disease
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Praxagoras
6
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- Neopythogroah Philosopher
- Speed of moon around sun
- Believed in God; yet, was still a philosopher
- Argonautica
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Appolonius
7
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- First known philosopher to place the sun at the center of the universe
- suspected that stars are like suns
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Aristarchus
8
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- Invented Pythagorean theorem
- He thought the would could explaining using numbers
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Pythagoras
9
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- Discovered the permissions of the equinoxes
- Made a form of trig
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Hipparchus
10
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- invented method for determining volume of objects with an unequal shapes
- made siege engines
- invented approximation of a circle
- invented pi
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Archimedes
11
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- Thought people should like according to nature and should ignore pleasure,wealth, & society
- Citizens of Sinope but the majority of the stories occurs in Athens
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Diogenes
12
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- Thought people could never know how things really are
- Took part in the Indian expedition of Alexander The great and met with philosophers and Indus Region
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Pyrrho
13
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- Made the first measurement of the size of the earth
- Made advances in mathematics Open parentheses prime numbers)
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Eratosthenes
14
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- Creator of Pastoral poetry, about nature
- A great poet
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Theocritus
15
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- Greek dramatist
- Wrote new comedies
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Menander
