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Apollodorus of Damascus
Apollodorus of Damascus (active first quarter second century CE): Roman architect, courtier of the emperor Trajan. Apollodorus of Damascus The Roman architect…
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Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212): Greek engineer, discoverer of the Law of Archimedes. An absent-minded Archimedes being by a Roman soldier One of…
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Aristarchus
Aristarchus of Samos (c.310-c.230 BCE): Greek astronomer, discoverer of heliocentric system.Aristarchus of Samos was the first to catch a glimpse of the immense size of the universe. Until then, everyone had believed that the moon, sun, planets, and stars all…Aristotle
Aristotle (384-322): greatest philosopher of Antiquity, teacher of Alexander the Great. Aristotle Plato's most famous student was Aristotle of Stagira, the son of…
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Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c.275-192): mathematician, geographer, astronomer, social theorist, historian, scholar, librarian in Alexandria.One of the students of the great poet Callimachus of Cyrene was Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c.275-192 BCE), who became librarian in the Museum, the scientific institute of…Euclid
Euclid (c.300 BCE): Greek mathematician, author of the Elements. Twelfth-century manuscript of a seventh-century Armenian translation of Euclid's Elements The great mathematician…Galen
Galen of Pergamon (129-216): Greek-Roman physician. A physician at work Galen of Pergamon (a city with an important sanctuary of Asclepius) started…