Apollonius of Perga was very well known in his time for various works including his 20+ books. His other books include the following Data, Porisms, and Surface-Loci of Euclid, and the Conics but only the Conics survived to todays’ world. Conics is known as the greatest scientific works of the ancient world. Apollonius of Perga was known as “The Great Geometer”. He was also thought to be famous for his astronomical work also but it wasn’t that accurate. Apollonius’ work had great influence on the development of mathematics. Apollonius was known to be born in 262 BC, Perga, Pamphylia. Today that is known as Murtiana or Murtana now in Antalya, Turkey. He wrote over 20 books but his most famous is Conics. Conics introduced what we know today as parabola, ellipse, and hyperbola. He was often confused with over Apollonius’ for the simple fact that Apollonius was a popular name during Apollonius’ time. In Apollonius’ …show more content…
Often visited Pergamum. In Pergamum he visited the university and library. While in Pergamum he met Eudemus. Apollonius addressed Eudemus in his second edition of the Conics. He introduced the geometer Philonides to Eudemus while they were at Ephesus. There is VERY little information known about Apollonius. To emphasis that I will inform you that there’s more information about his books that there is about him. In his books it was stated that he had a son. Also in his books he addressed a man by the name of Attalus. This man was thought to be King Attalus the first but was highly unlikely for the simple fact that Apollonius knew better that to address a king by his first name. Even though Apollonius was known for his astronomical work there is very little know about it. Apollonius is said to be responsible for us knowing about the motion of the plants and the speed of the moon. He also researched the lunar history. The crater in the moon called Apollonius is named in his
Ptolemy of Alexandria, the Influential Astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria was the most influential astronomer of the ancient world. The books and theories Ptolemy developed served as a major basis for future astronomers. It was during the Renaissance period that his work became thoroughly studied and revised. Ptolemy collected all ancient knowledge of astronomy and geography including it in his book Almagest around 140 A.D. It follows, he then wrote a four volume astrological study known as the Tretrabiblos.
When we think of the great empires of the past, the one that probably influenced western culture the most, would have to be the Roman Empire. It was so large that at the height of it’s power, the Roman Empire encompassed all of the Mediterranean sea going as far north as Britain, and as far east as ancient Babylon. Many different people groups and cultures were affected by the Roman Empire. They built many great wonders, many roads to connect the empire, and achieved many great feats through the might of their Empire. All of these things were possible because of one reason, the Roman military was the most dominant, cohesive, brilliant fighting force the world had ever seen. The Roman army made every great accomplishment of the empire possible. But there was a time when the Roman Republic was not powerful at all. It’s military reflected that, it was a mere collection of land holders that would fight only when needed. There was no professional force to speak of. But as time progresses and the Roman Republic evolved, so too did her military. And this transformation was due to one man, Gaius Marius. Gaius took the Roman Army and radically changed every aspect of them. He created a full time, professional army of disciplined men. And organized them into the famous legions. Without the reforms of Gaius Marius, the great Roman Empire that we all know and have studied, never would have existed.
...ostly remembered for his eccentric lifestyle. His prosthetic nose made of precious metals is a familiar tale. The story of his pet moose lives on, even though the moose did not. His ignominious death is almost common knowledge. Even as far as his astronomical work is concerned, outside of the scientific community, he is perhaps best-known for his geoheliocentric universe, which was later so strongly disproven by his own assistant.
Hippocrates taught in Athens and worked on squaring the circle and also worked on duplicating the cube. He grew far in these areas and although his work is not lost, it must have contained much of what Euclid later included in Books One and Two of the Elements.
It is a generally accepted fact that Aristotle's physics and astronomy were the weakest of his areas of study. He made discoveries and developed theories in biology, ethics, and drama that still hold a great deal of importance in those fields today. However, many of his theories and hypotheses were not disproved unitl the nineteenth century and his original concept of a uniform and consistant flow of time was accepted by Newton and still has its place in physics today. We really cannot discount the scientific contributions of a man whose ideas have survived for over 2000 years.
Aristarchus lived from about the year 310 B.C. to about 230 B.C. Aristarchus was the first Greek philosopher and mathematician to make sense of the solar system. Others before him thought that the Earth is a sphere and that it moves, but he was the first to understand the heliocentric theory, which states that the sun is in the middle. In 288 or 287 B.C. he followed Theophrastus as the head of the Peripatetic School established by Aristotle.
He used mathematics and observations to develop his understanding of the universe. This was key, because it showed how science could explain things instead of the church. As stated in (Document C) Ptolemy was a Roman astronomer who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, shortly after the time of Jesus. He developed a theory of the universe that was adapted by most scholars during the Middle Ages. Catholicism was the main view point of the way the world worked. Also that many different people had their own theories of the universe and the way the world
Euclid Of Alexandria may be the best-known mathematician of the world, he is best known for his work on mathematics The Elements. The fact that his work has survived so long, 2000 years in fact, is a tribute to his mathematical genius, however very little of him is known. Three theories abound as to the true nature of this historical figure. Not all historians agree that Euclid was in fact a historical figure, some argue that the school in Alexandria took up the name Euclid to publish their works. But the more accepted theories are that Euclid was in fact a real historical figure who may have been the leader of a team of mathematicians.
While at Pergamum he met Eudemus and Attaluus, and he wrote the first edition of
Euclid, who lived from about 330 B.C.E. to 260 B.C.E., is often referred to as the Father of Geometry. Very little is known about his life or exact place of birth, other than the fact that he taught mathematics at the Alexandria library in Alexandria, Egypt during the reign of Ptolemy I. He also wrote many books based on mathematical knowledge, such as Elements, which is regarded as one of the greatest mathematical/geometrical encyclopedias of all time, only being outsold by the Bible.
Despite his surname he was a citizen of Alexandria in the time of the Ptolemies. His fame rests surely on the Argonautica, a poem which was from the first unfairly compared with Homer’s Odyssey, but which Virgil was not ashamed to borrow from. He too was one of the famous poets, but in ancient Rome writing three famous poetries. Unlike his life-long rival Callimachus, Apollonius developed the classical traditions of the Homeric epic, expanding them to include a flair for romance and psychological insight which were entirely his own. He published his first version of the Argonautica sometime in the middle of the third century B.C.
His name, Claudius Ptolemy, is of course a mixture of the Greek Egyptian "Ptolemy" and the Roman "Claudius". This wound indicate that he was part of a Greek bloodline living in Egypt and he was a citizen of Rome, which would end up as a Roman Emperor giving that 'reward' to one of Ptolemy's ancestors. We are aware that Ptolemy used observations made by 'Theon the Mathematician’, and this was almost certainly Theon of Smyrna who was most likely his mentor. This would make sense figuring Theon was both an observer and a mathematician who had written astronomical topics such as conjunctions, eclipses, occultation's, and transits. Most of his earliest work are dedicated to Syrus who may have also mentored him at a point in this scientific discoveries, but nothing was ever
Faustus: Fate Sealed By Choice A newly developing concept during Marlow's time was predestination and Marlow toys with this concept provoking questions in the religiously dogmatic society of the time. In the early 17th century play, Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlow develops within the main protagonist Faustus a constant indecisiveness on the concept of predestination in order to leave his fate and the reason for it seemingly undetermined. However, it is the incapability of Faustus to choose to believe in the ever existent opportunity to repent and prevent damnation that seals his fate. The misinterpretation of predestination can easily lead one down an even worse path as by its very definition the choices one makes have already been decided.
Euclid, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, lived from 323-283 BC. He was a famous Greek mathematician, often referred to as the ‘Father of Geometry”. The dates of his existence were so long ago that the date and place of Euclid’s birth and the date and circumstances of his death are unknown, and only is roughly estimated in proximity to figures mentioned in references around the world. Alexandria was a broad teacher that taught lessons across the world. He taught at Alexandria in Egypt. Euclid’s most well-known work is his treatise on geometry: The Elements. His Elements is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, serving as the source textbook for teaching mathematics on different grade levels. His geometry work was used especially from the time of publication until the late 19th and early 20th century Euclid reasoned the principles of what is now called Euclidean geometry, which came from a small set of axioms on the Elements. Euclid was also famous for writing books using the topic on perspective, conic sections, spherical geometry, number theory, and rigor.