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People-legacy
Chapter 31 people
Term | Definition |
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Archimedes | A Greek person who climbed into a full tub and made the tub overflow and discovered volume. |
Herodotus | Greek writer who is known as the father of history. |
Thucydides | A Greek writer who is considered one of the greatest historians of the ancient world. |
Hippocrates | A Greek doctor who believed that diseases had natural causes. |
Pythagoras | A Greek mathematician who believed that numbers were the key to under standing nature. |
Euclid | A Greek mathematician who gave the basis for geometry. |
Hypatia | An Egyptian mathematician who taught philosophy and math(also a woman). |
Aristotle | A Greek philosopher who classified animals an plants Ex:A worm is an invertebrate. |