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L04 Agriculture to First Philosophers&scientists Flashcards

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Aristotle

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  • Most influential thinker
  • sense experience is real
  • proved earth is sphere
  • introduced physics
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-Catapult-the claw-death ray

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War tools by Archimedes

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  • No change, everything stays the same
  • change is an illusion
  • cannot use senses for observation, senses unreliable
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Parmenides

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displayed positions of various stars(archimedes)

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Antikythera

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Based on strict intangible evidence

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Greek law system

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Greatest mathematician and inventor/scientist of all time

  • built planetarium
  • first mechanical clock
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Archimedes

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Most influential thinker

  • sense experience is real
  • proved earth is sphere
  • introduced physics
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Aristotle

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Thales

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First scientist/philosopher

  • first to reject divine intervention
  • first astronomer
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9
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8th century BCGreek Mythology: Theogamy

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Hesiod

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Zeno

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No change and No motion

-Runner paradox

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First school

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Academy 338 BC by Plato

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Miletus

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600 BC, in Ionia (coast of modern Turkey)

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Plato

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  • sense not reliable
  • allegory of the cave
  • Sphere is a perfect form
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Early science occured in Greece because:

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  • separate gov’t from religion
  • public communication network
  • separated divine from natural
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War tools by archimedes

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-Catapult -the claw -death ray

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  • separate gov’t from religion
  • public communication network
  • separated divine from natural
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Early science occured in Greece because:

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Parmenides

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  • No change, everything stays the same
  • change is an illusion
  • cannot use senes for observation, senses unreliable
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Syracusia

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241 BC ship (archimedes)

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214 BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus sent to destroy syracuse

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Siege of Syracuse

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241 BC ship (archimedes)

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Academy 338 BCPlato

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First school

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Math is universal languageUniverse powered by Hestia (central fire)

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Pythagoras

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Lyceum

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Aristotle 335 BC

24
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Introduced the Atom

-Everything made from atoms

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Democritus

25
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Hesiod

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8th century BCGreek Mythology: Theogamy

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No change and No motion

-Runner paradox

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First scientist/philosopher

  • first to reject divine intervention
  • first astronomer
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Aristotle 335 BC

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syracuse victory celebrationromans sneak in and kill everyone

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600 BC city in Ionia

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  • sense not reliable
  • allegory of the cave
  • Sphere is a perfect form
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Archimedes

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Greatest mathematician and inventor/scientist of all time

  • built planetarium
  • first mechanical clock
33
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Pythagoras

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Math is universal language

Universe powered by Hestia (central fire)

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Greek law system

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Based on strict intangible evidence

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  • free time
  • record keeping
  • standardized measurement system
  • mathematics
  • warm climate
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Components for development of philosophy and science

36
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SPARE TIME

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Additionally, the plow allowed for:

37
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Additionally, the plow allowed for:

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SPARE TIME

38
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First Volcanologist

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Empedocles

39
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Anaximander

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First world map

First evolution theory (without divine internvention)

40
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Democritus

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Introduced the Atom

-Everything made from atoms

41
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Empedocles

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First Volcanologist

42
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Antikythera

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displayed positions of various stars(archimedes)

43
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Siege of Syracuse

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214 BC, Marcus Claudius Marcellus sent to destroy syracuse

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212 BC

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syracuse victory celebrationromans sneak in and kill everyone

45
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Components for development of philosophy and science

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  • free time
  • record keeping
  • standardized measurement system
  • mathematics
  • warm climate
46
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First world map

First evolution theory (without divine internvention)

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Anaximander

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