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Home Ancient Greek Scientists AGRICULTURALISTS ARCHITECTS ... PHYSICISTS MATHEMATICIAN ARCHYTAS OF TARENTUM (fl. 428-347 BC) Life Pythagorean philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, Archytas is sometimes called the father of mathematical mechanics. Aristotle wrote a special treatise on his work, entitled "The Philosophy of Archytas". His theories on the exact sciences are based on two principles: a) that there is no absolute difference between the organic and the inorganic world, and b) that the law of causality cannot interpret phenomena. In mathematics, Archytas was the first to distinguish between arithmetic and geometric progressions; he also found a solution to the problem of doubling the cube. He is thought to be the inventor of the screw and the pulley, and a forefather of mechanical flight. He was a friend of Plato and a teacher of Eudoxus of Cnidus. A valley at the North Pole of the moon has been named "Archytas" in his honour. Work The idea of flight had a perennial and passionate fascination for many ancient peoples; this is especially true of Greece, where not only the gods but also an assortment of demigods and mythical creatures were endowed with this gift. From myth to reality, however, is a long step, even though it was partially spanned by Daedalus with his famous airborne escape from Crete. While the flight of Daedalus and Icarus was probably mythical (opinion is divided), the feat of Archytas by contrast was truly revolutionary: in 425 BC he constructed the first flying machine in history. His "pigeon" (as he called it) was powered by a system of jet propulsion, and in one experiment it flew a distance of 200 metres. Once it fell to the ground, however, this machine could not take off again. Evanghelos Stamatis thinks it must have been some sort of jet-propelled craft driven by a compressed air system.

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Archytas of Tarentum Born: about 428 BC in Tarentum (now Taranto), Magna Graecia (now Italy) Died: about 350 BC Click the picture above to see two larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Archytas of Tarentum was a mathematician, statesman and philosopher who lived in Tarentum in Magna Graecia, an area of southern Italy which was under Greek control in the fifth century BC. The Pythagoreans, who had at one stage been strong throughout Magna Graecia, were attacked and expelled until only the town of Tarentum remained a stronghold for them. Archytas led the Pythagoreans in Tarentum and tried to unite the Greek towns in the area to form an alliance against their non-Greek neighbours. He was commander in chief of the forces in Tarentum for seven years despite there being a law that nobody could hold the post for more than a year. Plato , who became a close friend, made his acquaintance while saying in Magna Graecia. Heath writes in [4]:- ... he is said, by means of a letter, to have saved

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Archytas Michael Lahanas Archytas und das unendliche Universum invented " the most compelling argument ever produced for the infinity of space " Richard Sorabji tour de force Archytas believed that the universe is infinite, has no limits. Assume he said that the universe is finite and I am at one border of the universe. What hinders me to stretch my hand beyond this limit? (Simplicius 467,26) What is behind these limits (see Image above)? It is not clear why Plato and Aristotle have not accepted this argument but probably because they had some problems accepting the existence of a body without boundaries and the infinite in general Aristotle thought that the stars were spheres at a range of distances from the Earth. In medieval times stars were considered as holes in the surface of a sphere that let through light from behind. The flat-earth woodcut as visual rhetoric A similar idea had Euclid in his proof of the infinite number of primes. The idea of Euclid is to add 1 to the product of all assumed limited number of primes showing then that this number is either itself prime or a prime number exists that is larger than the largest prime used in the product. Other adopted also supported the idea of a infinite Universe such as Democritus and Epicurus with similar arguments.

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Ancient Greeks Aeschylus Aesop "The popular stories current regarding him are derived from a life, or rather romance, prefixed to a book of fables, purporting to be his, collected by Maximus Planudes, a monk of the 14th century. In this he is described as a monster of ugliness and deformity, as he is also represented in a well-known marble figure in the Villa Albani at Rome." Aeschines Alcaeus Alcibiades Anacreon Anaximander Antinoos (Antinous) from Bithynia, beloved boy of the Roman emperor Hadrian Antiochus III Megas Antisthenes c. 450-370 BC, a founder of the Cynic (derived from a gymnasium called Cynosarges) school of philosophy. Apollodorus of Damascus , Trajan's famous Greek architect; Munich, Germany, Image Source Trajan's Library Apollonius of Tyana Assumed to have performed miracles like Jesus of Nazareth. Image Source Archidamos III King of Sparta, wrongly considered as Archimedes By the side of Sodamas stands Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, king of the Lacedaemonians. Before this Archidamus no king, so far as I could learn, had his statue set up by the Lacedaemonians, at least outside the boundaries of the country. They sent the statue of Archidamus to Olympia chiefly, in my opinion, on account of his death, because he met his end in a foreign land, and is the only king in Sparta who is known to have missed burial. Pausanias Archilochus of Paros Archimedes of Syracuse Image from: Archimedes Website Aristippus Source Aristophanes Click the Image to obtain more information (Currently this works only for some of these images. I will provide the information for the other persons)

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