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Greece Legacies
Chapter 29
Term | Definition |
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Archimedes | Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor who discovered volume when in a bathtub one night. |
Herodotus | Greek historian and writer who was nicknamed "the father of history" for his historic writings. |
Thucydides | Greek historian and writer who wrote about the wars between Sparta and Athens. |
Hippocrates | Greek physician and medical student who taught about the heart, organs, brain, and nervous system and how they worked. |
Pythagoras | Greek philosopher and mathematician who loved numbers and taught geometry; the measurement of the land. |
Euclid | Greek mathematician and teacher who taught geometry and created the Geometry textbook which was used by people for 2,000 years. |
Aristotle | Organised Greek philosopher who classified and collected life information from his facination. |
Hypatia | She was a respected philosopher and mathematician in Alexandria, Egypt who was born around 370 B.C. who also taught geometry. |