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Chapters: Ancient Greek Astronomers, Ancient Greek Engineers, Ancient Greek Grammarians, Ancient Greek Mathematicians, Ancient Greek Physicians, Ancient Greek Physicists, Librarians of Alexandria, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras, Hipparchus, Democritus, Ptolemy, Thales, Eratosthenes, Hero of Alexandria, Galen, Leucippus, Diophantus, Hippocrates, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Pytheas, Hypatia, Empedocles, Aristarchus of Samos, Dicaearchus, Anaxagoras, Anthemius of Tralles, Menelaus of Alexandria, Theophrastus, Luke the Evangelist, Proclus, Dionysius Thrax, Callimachus, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Ctesias, Chrysippus, Hippias, Posidonius, Simplicius of Cilicia, Sporus of Nicaea, Aratus, Polybus, Ammonius Grammaticus, Prodicus, Didymus Chalcenterus, Conon of Samos, Hesychius of Alexandria, Antimachus, Pamphilus of Alexandria, Apion, Xenocrates, Diogenianus, Heraclides Ponticus, Herophilos, Medical Community of Ancient Rome, Ancient Greek Medicine, Porphyry, Apollonius of Perga, Amerias, Erasistratus, Pappus of Alexandria, Strato of Lampsacus, Apollonius of Rhodes, Philolaus, Antiphon, Alcmaeon of Croton, Hippasus, Timetable of Greek Mathematicians, Archytas, Eudemus of Rhodes, Menaechmus, Lycophron, Philo of Byzantium, Soranus of Ephesus, Alexander of Tralles, Pedanius Dioscorides, Autolycus of Pitane, Hippocrates of Chios, Praxagoras, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Oenopides, Theon of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Antoninus Liberalis, Parthenius of Nicaea, Rufus of Ephesus, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Epimachus of Athens, Milesian School, Philo of Byblos, Apollodorus, Eupalinos, Crates of Mallus, Geminus, Asclepiades of Bithynia, Timocharis, Thymaridas, Philip of Opus, Theano, Harpalus, Hypsicles, Cleomedes, Acron, Oribasius, Nicander, Apollonios of Kition, Agallis, Domninus of Larissa, Theon of Alexandria, Agnodice, Apollonius Dyscolus, Agamede, Serenus of Antinouplis, Ctesibius, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Castor of Rhodes, Zenodotus, Ctesi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22954 ... Read more

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Chapters: Archimedes Palimpsest, Greek Numerals, Timetable of Greek Mathematicians, Attic Numerals, Euclid's Orchard. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Archimedes Palimpsest is a palimpsest on parchment in the form of a codex. It originally was a copy of an otherwise unknown work of the ancient mathematician, physicist, and engineer Archimedes of Syracuse and other authors, which was overwritten with a religious text. Archimedes lived in the third century BC, but the copy of his work was made in the tenth century AD by an anonymous scribe. In the twelfth century the original Archimedes codex was unbound, scraped and washed, along with at least six other parchment manuscripts, including one with works of Hypereides. The parchment leaves had been folded in half and reused for a Christian liturgical text of 177 pages; the older leaves folded so that each became two leaves of the liturgical book. The erasure was incomplete, and Archimedes' work is now readable after scientific and scholarly work from 1998 to 2008 using digital processing of images produced by ultraviolet, infrared, visible and raking light, and X-ray. In 1906 it was briefly inspected in Constantinople (now Istanbul) by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg. With the aid of black-and-white photographs he arranged to have taken, he published a transcription of the Archimedes' text. Shortly thereafter Archimedes' Greek text was translated into English by Thomas Heath. Before that it was not widely known among mathematicians, physicists, or historians. It contains: The palimpsest also contains speeches by the fourth century BC politician Hypereides, a commentary on Aristotle's Categories by Alexander of Aphrodisias, and other works. The most remarkable of the above works is The Metho...http://booksllc.net/?id=167417 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 264 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This set has been prepared especially for nonspecialists, focusing on Renaissance-era topics, including entries on Florence, Galileo, heraldry, Medici family, opera, piracy, Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, and many others. ... Read more

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Chapters: Aristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras, Hipparchus, Democritus, Ptolemy, Thales, Eratosthenes, Hero of Alexandria, Diophantus, Hypatia, Aristarchus of Samos, Dicaearchus, Anaxagoras, Anthemius of Tralles, Menelaus of Alexandria, Proclus, Chrysippus, Hippias, Posidonius, Simplicius of Cilicia, Sporus of Nicaea, Conon of Samos, Xenocrates, Porphyry, Apollonius of Perga, Pappus of Alexandria, Philolaus, Antiphon, Hippasus, Timetable of Greek Mathematicians, Archytas, Menaechmus, Autolycus of Pitane, Hippocrates of Chios, Oenopides, Theon of Smyrna, Nicomachus, Geminus, Thymaridas, Theano, Hypsicles, Cleomedes, Domninus of Larissa, Theon of Alexandria, Serenus of Antinouplis, Ctesibius, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Ctesibius of Alexandria, Callippus, Marinus of Neapolis, Dinostratus, Nicomedes, Chronology of Ancient Greek Mathematicians, Theodorus of Cyrene, Diocles, Theaetetus, Meton of Athens, Bryson of Heraclea, Zenodorus, Philonides of Laodicea, Eutocius of Ascalon, Dionysodorus, Perseus, Leodamas of Thasos, Theodosius of Bithynia, Carpus of Antioch, Aristaeus the Elder, Asclepius of Tralles, Bion of Abdera, Nicoteles of Cyrene, Theudius, Attalus of Rhodes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 410. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aristotle (Greek: , Aristotéls) (384 BC 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings constitute a first at creating a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and sc...http://booksllc.net/?id=308 ... Read more

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Chapters: Constantin Carathéodory, Nicholas Metropolis, Leonidas Alaoglu, Themistocles M. Rassias, Francesco Maurolico, Apostolos Doxiadis, Demetrios Christodoulou, Athanassios S. Fokas, Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Tom M. Apostol, Ctesibius, Ctesibius of Alexandria, Athanasios Papoulis, Roger Apéry, Constantine Dafermos, Giovanni Demisiani, Panos Papasoglu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 67. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Constantin Carathéodory (or Constantine Karatheodori) (Greek: ) (September 13, 1873 February 2, 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. His work also includes important results in conformal representations and in the theory of boundary correspondence. In 1909, Carathéodory pioneered the Axiomatic Formulation of Thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. Constantin Carathéodory was born in Berlin to Greek parents and grew up in Brussels, where his father served as the Ottoman ambassador to Belgium. The Carathéodory family was well-established and respected in Constantinople, and its members held many important governmental positions. The Carathéodory family spent 1874-75 in Constantinople, where Constantin's paternal grandfather lived, while Stephanos was on leave. Then in 1875 they went to Brussels when Stephanos was appointed there as Ottoman Ambassador. In Brussels, Constantin's younger sister Loulia was born. The year 1895 was a tragic one for the family since Constantin's paternal grandfather died in that year, but much more tragically, Constantin's mother Despina died of pneumonia in Cannes. Constantin's maternal grandmother took on the task of bringing up Constantin and Loulia in his father's home i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=470625 ... Read more

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"We gave this story to a very competent, and very pretty gal artist. We said, Read this carefully, dream on it, and come up with an illustration. A week later, she returned with the finished drawing. The hero, she said. We did a double take. Hey! That''s not the hero. She looked us straight in the eye. Can you prove it She had us. We couldn''t, and she left hurriedly to go home and cook dinner for her family. And what were they having Frog legs--what else " ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eratosthenes of Cyrenewas a Greek mathematician, elegiac poet, athlete, geographer, and astronomer. He made several discoveries and inventions including a system of latitude and longitude. He was the first Greek to calculate the circumference of the earth (with remarkable accuracy), and the tilt of the earth's axis (also with remarkable accuracy); he may also have accurately calculated the distance from the earth to the sun and invented the leap day. He also created a map of the world based on the available geographical knowledge of the era. Eratosthenes was also the founder of scientific chronology; he endeavored to fix the dates of the chief literary and political events from the conquest of Troy. According to the entry ??????????? in the Suda (? 2898), his contemporaries nicknamed him ???? (beta, the second letter of the Greek alphabet) because he supposedly proved himself to be the second best in the world in almost any field. ... Read more

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During the years 1901-1904 Dr. Alexander Macfarlane delivered, at
Lehigh University, lectures on twenty-five British mathematicians
of the nineteenth century. The manuscripts of twenty of these
lectures have been found to be almost ready for the printer,
although some marginal notes by the author indicate that he had
certain additions in view. The editors have felt free to disregard
such notes, and they here present ten lectures on ten pure
mathematicians in essentially the same form as delivered. In a
future volume it is hoped to issue lectures on ten mathematicians
whose main work was in physics and astronomy.

These lectures were given to audiences composed of students,
instructors and townspeople, and each occupied less than an hour
in delivery. It should hence not be expected that a lecture can
fully treat of all the activities of a mathematician, much less
give critical analyses of his work and careful estimates of his
influence. It is felt by the editors, however, that the lectures
will prove interesting and inspiring to a wide circle of readers
who have no acquaintance at first hand with the works of the men
who are discussed, while they cannot fail to be of special
interest to older readers who have such acquaintance.

It should be borne in mind that expressions such as ``now,''
``recently,'' ``ten years ago,'' etc., belong to the year when a
lecture was delivered. On the first page of each lecture will be
found the date of its delivery.

For six of the portraits given in the frontispiece the editors are
indebted to the kindness of Dr.\ David Eugene Smith, of Teachers
College, Columbia University.

Alexander Macfarlane was born April 21, 1851, at Blairgowrie,
Scotland. From 1871 to 1884 he was a student, instructor and
examiner in physics at the University of Edinburgh, from 1885 to
1894 professor of physics in the University of Texas, and from
1895 to 1908 lecturer in electrical engineering and mathematical
physics in Lehigh University. He was the author of papers on
algebra of logic, vector analysis and quaternions, and of
Monograph No.\ 8 of this series. He was twice secretary of the
section of physics of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and twice vice-president of the section of mathematics
and astronomy. He was one of the founders of the International
Association for Promoting the Study of Quaternions, and its
president at the time of his death, which occured at Chatham,
Ontario, August 28, 1913. His personal acquaintance with British
mathematicians of the nineteenth century imparts to many of these
lectures a personal touch which greatly adds to their general
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Pythagoras
The book is an interesting rendition on a well-known topic to mathematicians and scientists. Pythagoras lived from 580 BC to 500 BC. The rendition covers math, the sciences, gods, planets and music. Pythagoras had sway
over the government of Croton-a small group of aristocrats. He was
persecuted in Italy. The followers spread out to Sicily and Greece.
Copernicus credited Pythagoras for the groundwork set forth in
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for any student project in the arts or sciences.
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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 366 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by International Medical News Group on August 1, 2010. The length of the article is 504 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Time to move away from 'a pill for every ill'.(COMMENTARY)(Viewpoint essay)
Author: Gurorit S. Lamba
Publication: Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2010
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 38Issue: 8Page: 12(1)

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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
by Florence M. Firth

Pythagoras of Samos (born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian Greek mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist; however some have questioned the scope of his contributions to mathematics and natural philosophy. He is best known for the Pythagorean theorem, which bears his name. Known as “the father of numbers†, Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religious teaching in the late 6th century BC. He was the first man to call himself a philosopher, or lover of wisdom, and Pythagorean ideas exercised a marked influence on Plato. Unfortunately, very little is known about Pythagoras because none of his writings have survived. Many of the accomplishments credited to Pythagoras may actually have been accomplishments of his colleagues and successors. ... Read more

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Examines the life, discoveries, and contributions of the ancient Greek mathematician who introduced mechanics, mathematical formulas, and experimental science. ... Read more