Across |
1. | Astronomer who formulated calendar reform in Athens consisting of a 19 year cycle of 235 months |
2. | Greco-Roman mathematician and astronomer; author of Mathematical Comilation (Almagest) which shaped the development of astronomy for 1500 years |
4. | Philosophical system founded by Zeno that maintained happiness came through living in harmony with nature and natural law; this harmony required knowledge of natural world |
7. | Encyclopedic author whose Natural History provided a useful register of what an educated Roman should know; Collected 20,000 facts from hundreds of different sources; died in Vesuvius' eruption |
8. | Developed two-sphere model; student of Plato |
10. | works that seek to explain the 6 days of the creation as described in the Book of Genesis |
11. | Author of the first textbook; presented axiomatic, deductive model of proof |
12. | Study of the end of things |
13. | Largest collection of books in ancient world; located in Alexandria patronized by Ptolemy kings |
14. | Astronomer and mathematician; invented trigonmetry and developed accurate star maps |
16. | Medical sect that believed diseases were caused by tenseness and laxness of body |
17. | Apparent backward motion of planets |
20. | Home of Pre-Socratic philosphers in Ionia |
21. | Used to determine the direction of the Holy City of Mecca |
22. | Circle on deferent; employed by Ptolemy to explain retrograde motion |
23. | Propagated atomic theory (atoms and void) as part of philosophical system aimed eliminating fear of the unknown |
27. | This technological innovation significantly increased the production of books in the Abbasid Caliphdom; the technology for the production of __________ was learned from Chinese prisoners. |
29. | Medical Sect that scorned theoretical knowledge |
32. | came up with criteria to examine Book of Genesis which differentiated between literal and allegorical meaning |
33. | Means "Greek like" |
34. | __________ Arts; seven fields of study or disciplines |
35. | Medical sect that searched for "hidden causes of diseases"; also known as Rationalists |
37. | Greatest Greco-Roman physician; central to his aim was need to classify diseases and to discover the universals that lay behind the particulars and to searched for hidden causes; began career treating gladiators and ended it treating emperors; |
38. | Greek word for "to learn" Lloyd GSA 33 |
39. | Physiologist who believed that all tissue in the body contains veins, arteries, and nerves; conducted dissections after Herophilus |
40. | Means successor or deputy of The Prophet |