Geometry
Astronomers
Archimedes
Eratosthenes
100
The branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another.
What is plane geometry?
100
Claimed that the sun was the center of the universe.
What is Aristarchus?
100
Archimedes figured out the value of this.
What is pi?
100
He was in charge of this in Alexandria, Egypt.
What is library?
200
The study of ball-like shapes called spheres and tube-like shapes called cylinders.
What is solid geometry?
200
Created a system to explain how planets and stars move.
What is Hipparchus?
200
What city did Archimedes come from.
What is Syracuse?
200
He concluded the earth was this?
What is round?
300
Wrote a book that organized information about geometry.
What is Euclid?
300
He explained knowledge of mathematics and astronomy.
What is Hypatia?
300
Archimedes invented this to drive the Romans away from Syracuse?
What is catapult?
300
What did he use to determine the curve of the Earth's surface?
What is sticks?
400
He established the first principles of geometry.
What is Pythagoras?
400
The king was impressed with which of his inventions?
What is levers?
400
About how many miles of was he of the distance of earth to the sun
What is 185 miles.
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