Oenopides - The Blazing Sun in Greek Science
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- Published on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 13:45
Oenopides of Chios was a Greek astronomer, mathematician and geometer, who was born on Chios shortly after the year 500 / 490 BC on the island of Chios, and died about 420 BC. In the time around 450 BC, he was living in Athens, with revolutionary discoveries in both astronomy and geometry.
Hippocrates – The Founding Father of Mathematics
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- Published on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 14:34
Mostly every person who works in the realm of numbers knows the name of Hippocrates, since he had an important role in the history of Math with his understandings and accomplishments.
Ion of Chios – The Historian of the Island of Chios
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- Published on Monday, 11 February 2013 16:02
Ion of Chios was a Greek writer, poet, philisopher and daramatist, who lived in the time of 490 until 423 BC. He is considered to be on par with the three most famous tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as well as the historian of Chios island.
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