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Thales :"Thales' most famous belief was his cosmological thesis, which held that the world started from water."
Anaximander: "Anaximander understood the beginning or first principle to be an endless, unlimited primordial mass (apeiron), subject to neither old age nor decay, that perpetually yielded fresh materials from which everything we perceive is derived." (Conservation of Mass and Energy anyone?)
Pythagoras: "Pythagorean theorem, a theorem in geometry that states that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle), c, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, b and a—that is, a2 + b2 = c2."
Heraclitus: "????? ??? (panta rhei) "everything flows"" (Velocity, Flux, Energy)
???? ??? ???? (The way up and down) (Transformations...again Conservation of Energy)
Empedocles (my favorite): It was Empedocles who established four ultimate elements which make all the structures in the world - fire, air, water, earth.
Nothing new comes or can come into being; the only change that can occur is a change in the juxtaposition of element with element.
He also dealt with the first origin of plants and animals, and with the physiology of humans. As the elements entered into combinations, there appeared strange results - heads without necks, arms without shoulders.[33] Then as these fragmentary structures met, there were seen horned heads on human bodies, bodies of oxen with human heads, and figures of double sex.[34] But most of these products of natural forces disappeared as suddenly as they arose; only in those rare cases where the parts were found to be adapted to each other, did the complex structures last. Thus the organic universe sprang from spontaneous aggregations, which suited each other as if this had been intended. Soon various influences reduced the creatures of double sex to a male and a female, and the world was replenished with organic life. (Before Darwin, before Christianity brought us back to the Stone Age).
He put forward the idea that we see objects because light streams out of our eyes and touches them.
Anaxagoras: attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese.
Democritus: The theory of Democritus and Leucippus held that everything is composed of "atoms", which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between atoms lies empty space; that atoms are indestructible; have always been, and always will be, in motion; that there are an infinite number of atoms, and kinds of atoms, which differ in shape, and size.
Aristarchus of Somos: "But Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the 'universe' just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same center as the Sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the Earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface" (Holy Sh*t!! 1,000 some years before Copernicus wrote it and Galileo almost got killed for it)
Archimedes: "Archimedes was able to use infinitesimals in a way that is similar to modern integral calculus. " (1,000 some years before a drag queen named Newton created calculus)
Is it me or are we modern people just retarded? lol
Anaximander: "Anaximander understood the beginning or first principle to be an endless, unlimited primordial mass (apeiron), subject to neither old age nor decay, that perpetually yielded fresh materials from which everything we perceive is derived." (Conservation of Mass and Energy anyone?)
Pythagoras: "Pythagorean theorem, a theorem in geometry that states that in a right-angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle), c, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, b and a—that is, a2 + b2 = c2."
Heraclitus: "????? ??? (panta rhei) "everything flows"" (Velocity, Flux, Energy)
???? ??? ???? (The way up and down) (Transformations...again Conservation of Energy)
Empedocles (my favorite): It was Empedocles who established four ultimate elements which make all the structures in the world - fire, air, water, earth.
Nothing new comes or can come into being; the only change that can occur is a change in the juxtaposition of element with element.
He also dealt with the first origin of plants and animals, and with the physiology of humans. As the elements entered into combinations, there appeared strange results - heads without necks, arms without shoulders.[33] Then as these fragmentary structures met, there were seen horned heads on human bodies, bodies of oxen with human heads, and figures of double sex.[34] But most of these products of natural forces disappeared as suddenly as they arose; only in those rare cases where the parts were found to be adapted to each other, did the complex structures last. Thus the organic universe sprang from spontaneous aggregations, which suited each other as if this had been intended. Soon various influences reduced the creatures of double sex to a male and a female, and the world was replenished with organic life. (Before Darwin, before Christianity brought us back to the Stone Age).
He put forward the idea that we see objects because light streams out of our eyes and touches them.
Anaxagoras: attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows, and the sun, which he described as a fiery mass larger than the Peloponnese.
Democritus: The theory of Democritus and Leucippus held that everything is composed of "atoms", which are physically, but not geometrically, indivisible; that between atoms lies empty space; that atoms are indestructible; have always been, and always will be, in motion; that there are an infinite number of atoms, and kinds of atoms, which differ in shape, and size.
Aristarchus of Somos: "But Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the 'universe' just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same center as the Sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the Earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface" (Holy Sh*t!! 1,000 some years before Copernicus wrote it and Galileo almost got killed for it)
Archimedes: "Archimedes was able to use infinitesimals in a way that is similar to modern integral calculus. " (1,000 some years before a drag queen named Newton created calculus)
Is it me or are we modern people just retarded? lol