Greek philosopher whose works were the basis for most scientific study well into 17th C.
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History of physics - Wikipedia  Physics is the fundamental branch of science that developed out of the study of nature and ... Physics is, in some senses, the oldest and most basic pure science; .... The study of magnetism in Ancient China dates back to the 4th century BCE. (in the Book ... Many classic works in Latin and Greek were translated into Arabic.
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physical science - Britannica.com  May 3, 2016 ... History of three scientific fields that study the inorganic world: astronomy, chemistry, and physics. ... In the 20th century physics and astronomy became more intimately linked ... The Greek philosophers of the 6th and 5th centuries bce .... to work out theories of the Sun and Moon that were more successful...
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History of scientific method - Wikipedia  The history of scientific method is a history of the methodology of scientific inquiry, as ... Some of the most important debates in the history of scientific method center .... It was therefore the work of the philosopher to demonstrate universal truths ..... By the 17th century, those who clung dogmatically to Aristotle's teachings were...
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Scientific revolution - Wikipedia  The scientific revolution was the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, ... Advances in science have been termed "revolutions" since the 18th century. ... Thomas Kuhn's 1962 work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ... framework in the 17th century, although by that time natural philosophers had...
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History of science - Wikipedia  The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, ... From the 18th century through late 20th century, the history of science, .... of influence lead from ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophers, to medieval ..... texts in both the Muslim world and in Europe well into the 17th century.
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here  One of his most celebrated works, intended for publication around 1633, was .... For students of mathematics, the enormous benefit of analytic geometry is that ... By introducing coordinate geometry, Descartes was merely following in the .... Descartes, Rene, Discourse on Method, Optics, Geometry, and Meteorology,...
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Socrates - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Sep 2, 2009 ... Socrates (469/470-399 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and is ... Plato was his most famous student and would teach Aristotle who would ... Socrates was born c. ... while others who were looked down on as common people were .... (by drinking hemlock) surrounded by his friends in his jail cell in Athens and...
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Galileo Galilei - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Considered the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) made major contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics and philosophy.
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Newton - 17th Century Mathematics - The Story of Mathematics  But the greatest of them all was undoubtedly Sir Isaac Newton. ... His 1687 publication, the "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" (usually called ... is considered to be among the most influential books in the history of science, and it ... His theory of calculus built on earlier work by his fellow Englishmen John Wallis...
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Plato | Greek philosopher | Britannica.com  Jan 29, 2016 ... Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates (c. 470399 bce), teacher of Aristotle (384322 bce), and founder of the ... BC). Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher. He is regarded as one of the world's greatest thinkers.
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Newton's Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Oct 13, 2006 ... If we attempt to understand Newton's work from an historical point of view, ... with Newton's work on the calculus in The Analyst (1734) and with his ... influential work during the French Enlightenment, Foundations of Physics (1740), .... period, when figures like Euclid and Ptolemy wrote works on the subject,...
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Plato - Ancient History - HISTORY.com  The Athenian philosopher Plato (c.428-347 B.C.) is one of the most important ... Around 387, the 40-year-old Plato returned to Athens and founded his philosophical school in the grove of the Greek hero Academus, just outside the city walls.
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John Philoponus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  Mar 11, 2003 ... Although the Aristotelian-Neoplatonic tradition was the source of his ... among all ancient philosophers (i.e., those down to the time of Aristotle) including Homer. ... their intellect and their character with a view to becoming godlike as ... In the same way, Philoponus argues, soul, as an incorporeal activity in...
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Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287-ca. 212 BC) -- from Eric ...  Greek mathematician who flourished in Sicily. He is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient times. Most of the facts about his life come...
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The medical School of Cos, Hippocratic Medicine  Hippocrates, the "father" of rational medicine, worked on the island of Kos ... The Hippocratic diagnostic system, based on observation and logical reasoning, ... Greeks also learned a great amount from lay medicine and from ancient .... and especially from the latter, that the father of Medicine arose (11-14, 18, and 24).
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Platonic Academy - Wikipedia  The Academy (Ancient Greek: ) was founded by Plato (428/427 BC  348/347 BC) in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle (384322 BC) studied there for twenty years (367347 BC) before founding his own school, the Lyceum. ... dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, outside the city walls of ancient Athens.
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Lucius Apuleius | Roman philosopher and scholar | Britannica.com  Apuleius asserted that he had written a number of poems and works on ... In the 2nd century ce Lucius Apuleius passed on some knowledge of Greek logic in...
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Greek Philosophy - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Jun 11, 2013 ... The Pre-Socratics ... The first group of Greek philosophers is a triad of Milesian thinkers: .... (he said he knew nothing) with a method that challenged conventional ... He is the best known Greek philosopher; the triumph of his work has .... of the citizens of Athens claiming he was searching for an honest man.
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Ren Descartes - Wikipedia  Ren Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of ... Many elements of his philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived ... Descartes laid the foundation for 17th-century continental rationalism, later ... In his book Discourse on the Method, Descartes recalls,.
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17th century Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens developed the ...  Jun 29, 2016 ... His 17th century work seen here is known as The Jewish Bride # Quiz # ... It's his 17th century young woman seen here # Quiz # Question. 0:29.