Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia | Pythagoreans
Archytas (/ˈɑːrkɪtəs/; Greek: Ἀρχύτας; 435/410–360/350 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, music theorist, astronomer, statesman, and strategist. He was a scientist of the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics, as well as a good friend of Plato. (Wikipedia).
Teach Astronomy - Greek Cosmology
http://www.teachastronomy.com/ The first scientific thinking about the universe dates back to the Greek philosophers of the fifth and sixth centuries B.C. They applied logic, they formed hypothesis, and they tried to test the hypothesis although this was a time two thousand years before t
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