Developed a theory that the world was composed of tiny particles invisible to the naked eye. The movement of these particles accounted for change in the material world.
What is Atomist
100
Efficient, Material, Formal, and Final
What is Aristotle's Four Causes
100
Wrote the first anatomy book
What is Galen
100
Developed a theory of the universe based on observation. His Almagest was the standard Astronomy texts until the 17th century
What is Claudius Ptolemy
100
Planetary pathways that revolve and rotate
What is Epicycles and Eccentrics
200
Monist who believed that water was the most fundamental of the elements.
What is Thales
200
Geometric shape corresponding to each of the four elements.
What is the Platonic Solids
200
Concerned with taking medical histories as an important part of developing threapies and treatments
What is Hippacrates
200
Wrote the first geometry textbook.
What is Euclid
300
Mathematics was the key to understanding the natural world.
What is the Pythagoreans/Pythagoras
300
Caused the world to come into existence
What is the Prime Mover (Plato)
300
Islamic polymath that wrote several medical volumes that divided diseases into five catergories
What is Avicenna
300
World conquerer who took Hellenistic philosophy and ideas to all his conquered lands.
What is Alexander the Great
300
Orderly, guided by principles that control chaos
What is Cosmos
400
Various groups who believed that there was a single element fundamental to explaining the natural world.
What is the Monists
400
Concerned with developing methods to analyze and classify objects in the natural world
What is Aristotle--beginning to scientific method
400
Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Phylm, and Blood
What is Four Body Humors
400
Great engineers and inventor who applied Euclidian geometry to create hydrualics
What is Archimedes
400
How we know something
What is Epistemology
500
Credited with establishing the four elements. Believed that the agents that cause the elements to combine and separate were love and strife.
What is Empedocles
500
Change is the only thing that is real in the natural world, and we know it through our senses
What is Aristotlian epistemology
500
Contained the most extensive research and writings on natural philosophy and other pre-scientific knowledge, including medicine
What is the Library at Alexandria
500
Earth centered universe
What is Ptolemaic Model
500
Understanding how the world is put together and why it behaves the way it does.