NATS 1745 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Globe, Antikythera Mechanism, Star Catalogue
16 Apr 2018
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Instead, each region developed its small own city state, or polis, the greek word that gives rise to politics. " and trade between the city states was in the hands of independent merchants. So greece developed the world"s first middle class culture. With fluid funds, the prosperous greek middle class had time on their hands - and freedom to do what they liked with it. The fundamental geography and decentralized rule of ancient greece allowed for an intellectual freedom that led to a revolution in scientific thought fragmented geography -> decentralized rule -> individual intellectual freedom. Thales considered the father of science for attempting to find explanations for natural phenomena that didn"t involve the gods. According to legend, when he discovered that musical pitch is determined by the length of the instrument, he realized: the universe is a cosmos (a harmonious system that obeys knowable laws) Pythagoras proposed that the earth is a sphere. Ships gradually disappear on the horizon bottom-first.
