The Ancients
List the members of A Team.
Who are Anaxamander, Anaximenes, and Anaxagorus?
This Roman-Christian emperor closed Greek schools in 529 C.E. which halted scientific inquiry in Europe.
Who is Emperor Justinian?
Name this theorem:
a2 + b2 = c2
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
Aristotle described this upward motion which makes elemental air and fire rise.
What is levity?
Name the six principles of machines.
What are: lever, inclined plane, pulley, wedge, wheel and axle, and screw?
He theorized that all matter was composed of tiny, indivisible atoms like the beach is composed of sand.
Who is Democritus?
This scientist/philosopher believed the Sun, stars and planets were attached to perfect, hard crystal spheres.
Who is Aristotle?
He and his followers believed numbers were divine.
Who is Pythagoras?
Anaximenes said this "element" is the source of all matter?
What is air?
Some people at first thought the sky was made of this gemstone.
What is lapis lazuli?
He is considered the first scientist in recorded history because he used his senses and reasoning to understand the world instead of relying on superstitious explanations.
Who is Thales?
This philosopher determined the size of the Moon, it's distance from Earth and that the Sun rotated on an inclined axis.
Who is Aristarchus?
He wrote The Elements and is considered the father of geometry.
Who is Euclid?
An idea or possibility.
What is an hypothesis?
The country is the home of the first printing press.
What is China?
He is credited as inventing the steam engine and described the six principles for machines.
Who is Hero of Alexandria?
This 6th century monk believed the Earth had a rectangular shape.
Who is Cosmas?
The study of points, lines and angles is known as this branch of math.
What is geometry?
Imaginative attempts to explain what seems unexplainable.
What is a myth?
The appearance of a planet (or any object) moving backwards because it is viewed from a moving planet (or another moving position).
What is retrograde?
This Greek scientist stated that the four basic elements are earth, air, fire and water.
Who is Empedocles?
This important theologian revived Greek learning and scientific inquiry in Europe.
Who is St. Augustine?
Archimedes was supposedly doing this activity when he came up with his idea to prove the goldsmith had cheated the king when the goldsmith made the king's crown.
What is a bath?
That idea is now known as Archimedes' Principle - an object immersed in a liquid will displace a volume of liquid equal to the object's own volume.
This word means having to do with the sky or the heavens.
What is celestial?
A number that can not be turned into a ratio of two integers.
What is an irrational number?