Ancient Greek Science and Astronomy

The Ancient Greek culture has had such an impact on the world that no matter
where you look you're sure to find something Greek about it. Out of all the
areas that the Greek culture is famous for there are two that tend to exert
themselves into our own culture even today. That would be their Science and
Astronomy fields.

If one were to look up in a library books about ancient Greek science and astronomy
they would have a mountain of books to sift through. There seem to be so many
individuals who have contributed towards the great scientific and astronomic
revelations that the list of names seems to go on and on. Many of the theories
that were structured in the ancient Greek culture are still put to use today.

The goal of this paper is to point out and describe just a few ancient Greek
individuals and their works that whom without their work we might never have
advanced as far and as fast as we have technologically or mentally.

Sometimes described as the first pure mathematician, Pythagoras of Samos, was
a very important developer of modern mathematics. Unfortunately there is, in
comparison, little known about his and his followers' achievements for they
worked in a secret society where they kept strictly to themselves.

An odd note about the details of Pythagoras's life is that the information
that is written about him in early biographies is done so by authors who make
him out to be a god-like being that has divine powers bestowed upon him. The
information that can be collected on Pythagoras is of great historical importance
due to how early of a record it is. Some believe this information to be accurate
while others think of it as mere legend.

Pythagoras was the founder of a philosophical and religious school in Croton,
which is a city on the east of the heel of Italy, where he wasthe head of a
society that had a circle of close, loyal followers called mathematikoi. The
mathematikoi never left the society, had no personal... [continues]

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