ANCIENT GRECO-ROMAN ADVANCEMNTS

MATH

• They Greeks also developed the principles of mathematical proof.
• Pythagoras established geometry and created the Pythagorean theorem.
• Greeks used an abacuses as a calculator that counted from 1-100 and created pi.
• Romans further advanced geometry with the creation of trigonometry.
• Diophantus distinguished by using symbols in mathematics instead of writing.

SCIENCE

• Philosopher Thales acquires fame by predicting a solar eclipse in 585 BC.
• Birth of biology in 5th - 4th century BC
• Human evolution was introduced.
• Introduced that earth revolves on its own axis and an orbit.
• Brought up electricity and magnetism in 5th century BC .

TECHNOLOGY

• 150 BC an analog computer was created and vending machines.
• Automatic doors and showers were created back in Ancient Greece.
• Aqueducts, concrete, newspapers, welfare, bound books and
• Roads/highways, arches, Julian calendar, and battlefield surgery
• Were all created in ancient Greco-Roman times.

ENGINEERING

• 515BC a crane that was built to carry heavy loads.
• A cannon was built with compressed air.
• Silver mine was built and used.
• Spiral staircase was first built in a temple.
• Arches were used and the coliseum was built.

ART

• Temples and statues devoted to the gods.
• Pottery, paintings which depicted events.
• Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns.
• architecture, and mosaic work.