ANCIENT GREECE MODERN CONTRIBUTIONS

MATH

ANCIENT MATH

• Greeks used geometery to measure land
• Euclid - his textbook became the basis for teaching for more than 2000 years
• Hypatia - first woman mathematician
• Geometry means to measure land
• Pythagoras made a school for math theories

ASTRONOMY

ANCIENT ASTRONOMY

• Greek word meaning star
• Greeks were pioneers in the astronomy field
• They observed sun, moon and stars
• Aristarchus was the first to suggest that earth revolved around the sun
• Hipparchus- studied more then 850 stars, figured out how to estimate distances from the earth to the sun.

GEOGRAPHY

ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY

• Greek word meaning writing about earth
• Map makers located places on earth relative to the stars
• They developed latitude and longitude
• Ptolemy- wrote "Geography"
• Geography listed over 8,000 places and his book had maps that shlwed the curved earth on a flat surface

PLANTS & ANIMALS

ANCIENT PLANTS AND ANIMALS

• Studied anatomy of animals- helped doctors in medical studies
• Greeks identified many plants and there parts - named there parts,
• Learned that plants reproduce by spreeding seeds and useful medicines
• Divided plants and animals into groups
• Animals- vertebrates and invertebrates |Plants- Shrubs, herbs, and trees