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Hellenistic Culture - Coggle Diagram

Hellenistic Culture

Astronomy (Chloe Moreno)

Achievements

- Aristarchus of Samos found that the sun was at least 300 times larger than the earth

- Aristarchus of Samos proposed that the planets revolved around the sun

- Eratosthenes tried calculating the circumference of the earth and got that it was around 28000 and 29000 (it is around 24,860)
- Hipparchus charted 850 stars

Philosophers

 - Eratosthenes was the director of the Alexandrian library and used Geometry to calculate the circumference of the Earth
 -Aristarchus was an Astronomer who did two of the Achievements below
-Hipparchus lived in Alexandria

Mathematics (Sabira)

Achievements:

 Euclid has a very popular book called "Elements", this book is still used today in courses of Geometry.

 Archimedes accurately estimated the pi, which is the ratio of circumference to diameter.

Philosophers:

Euclid - A highly leveled mathematician, he taught math in Alexandria.

Archimedes - A very important Hellenistic scientist.

Philosophy (Ava)

Achievements

Epicurus

Founded the school of thought called Epicureanism.

He had taught gods who eventually ruled the universe are ones who had no interest in humans.

He also taught that only the real objects that existed are the objects that individuals can feel the 5 senses.

He had proposed that the welfare comes from righteous behavior.