Greek Philosophers

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(638-648 BC) develop the theory of matter based upon water
Thales of Miletus
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(470-399 B.C) emphasized the theory of skepticism study of human in relation to society.
Socrates
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about 400 B.C started the science of medicine and known as the greatest physician of antiquity and regarded as the father of medicine
Hippocrates
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assumed that three were more than one kind of matter and postulated four root elements EARTH AIR FIRE WATER
Empedocles
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regarded the father of biology
Aristotle
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performs experiments which led him to discover the laws of the level.
archimedes
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greatest astronomers who founded the geocentric theory
Ptolemy
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develop atomic theory
democritus
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mathematician pythagorean theorem
pythagoras
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dealt with the nature of the universe
plato
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both mathematicians and astronomers (discovered about orbit)
aristarchus
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discovered the length of the month
hipparchus
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determine that the circumstances of the earth was 28,000
erathothenes
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regarded the father of plant also wrote cause of plant
Theophrastus
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