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Who invented the lever?
What did Aristarchus of Samos believe about the solar system?
What did the Romans do if Archimedes was feeling testy with his weapons?
- Herophilus and Erasisratus studied both living and death bodies by cutting them open
- They made significant discoveries with the brain, eye, liver, and the reproductive and nervous systems
- Archimedes invented the pulley, lever, and many war machines
- He also laid waste the the feeble Roman army with the power of science
This is Aristarchus's depiction of the Earth revolving around the sun.
- the most famous of the astronomers of this time was Aristarchus of Samos, who was commonly referred to was "Hellenistic Copernicus"
- Aristarchus held a view that the solar system was heliocentric which contradicted the popular theory that it was geocentric
This is the Archimedean screw, and it was supposedly invented by Archimedes as a tool for irrigation as well as a pulley to transport heavy objects.
- Astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, and physics were the most significant sciences
- differs from Classical Greece in a sense that it's more separated from philosophy
- scientific knowledge was based on scientific investigation, empirical research, or systematic observation
- Archimedes remains the most well known scientist of the time because of his work in physics
Hellenistic Science
By Caleb McKenzie
Fifth Hour