The Greek Legacy

By Sparano Eliott
  • Period: 626 BCE to 545 BCE

    Thales

    He is considered to be the first known individual to use deductive reasoning for geometry and to use them to do his own theorem, the theorem of Thales.
  • Period: 570 BCE to 495 BCE

    Pythagoras

    This Ionian greek philosopher was the founder of the theorem of Pythagoras, the eponymous founder in this case.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 428 BCE

    Anaxagoras

    He was a socratic greek philosopher and mathematician, he deduced a great explanation for eclipses, rainbows and meteors.
  • Period: 480 BCE to 411 BCE

    Antiphon

    Antiphon was an important figure in fifth century Athenian, especially in politic, he made a lot of speeches, he also is a famous orator. He could have written the treatise of Interpretations of Dreams.
  • Period: 396 BCE to 314 BCE

    Xenocrates

    He was a greek philosopher, mathematician and leader of the Platonic Academy.
  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    He is known to be the founder of Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy and the Aristotelian tradition
  • 330 BCE

    Euclide

    He wrote the encyclopedia composed of 13 books named "The elements"
  • Period: 287 BCE to 212 BCE

    Archimedes

    Greek mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, and inventor. in his mathematical achievements, he succeeded to derive an approximation of Pi.
  • Period: 240 BCE to 180 BCE

    Diocles

    Greek mathematician who wrote "On heated mirrors" and discovered the focal propriety of parabole.
  • Period: 190 BCE to 120 BCE

    Hipparchus

    He was a greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician and he is the founder of trigonometry.
  • Period: 10 to 70

    Hero of Alexandria

    He was a greek mathematician and engineer, he is known for his Aeolipile's invention.
  • Period: 100 to 170

    Ptolemy

    He wrote about a dozen scientific treatises which showed their importance later in the European, Byzantine and Islamic science.
  • Period: 214 to 284

    Diophantus

    He was the author of the books called Arithtmetica, in which he solved and showed how to solve algebraic equations.
  • Period: 370 to 415

    Hypathia

    She was a greek neoplatonist philosopher, known for the construction of astrolabes and hydrometers, although she didn't invent them.