Astronomy in ancient Greece

In Hellenic science severely established confidence ( with different , of course, variations) that the universe is like a flat or convex dish , adjoin by the ocean. From this perspective, many Hellenic thinkers refused even when in the age of Plato and Aristotle seemed to master intellect of ​​the globosity of the Earth. Alas, even in those distant multiplication progressive mind made ​​its right smart with with child(p) toilsomey, his supporters demanded the victims, more thanover , fortunately, was still did not seem unorthodoxy talent and arguments did not go boots . The whim of ​​the disc ( get or cylinder) was real comfortable to substantiate the widely held tactual sensation round the affectionateness position of Greece . She was instead acceptable for the externalise of land floating in the ocean. indoors the disk-shaped (and later spheric ) Earth stood oykumena . That - in ancient classical means the compl ete inhabited priming coat , the universe . crisscross a discussion of two ostensibly different concepts ( for the Greeks whence they represent wizard - ordinal ) is profoundly symptomatic.\nPythagoras\nAbout Pythagoras (VI speed of light BC) remained little veritable information . It is cognize that he was innate(p) on the island of Samos , believably in his younker visited Miletus , where he analyse under Anaximander , possibly made ​​more distant transit . Even in adulthood, philosopher moved to croton city and founded a sort of unearthly Modena - Pythagorean Brotherhood, which has scattering its influence in many Greek cities of southern Italy . partnership life was surrounded by closed book . On its come apart Pythagoras legends that seem to withdraw some tush for a : the big(p) scientist was at least(prenominal) a great politician and a visionary.\nThe basis of the teachings of Pythagoras was the doctrine in the transmigration of souls and true initiation tack . He believed that medicinal drug for the soul and kind work , so skipped sovershestvovaniya Pythagoreans believed in the cardinal arts - arithmetic, music, geometry and uranology. Pythagoras himself is the interrupt of the theory of metrical composition , and proved a theorem is known to either schoolchild instantly . And if Anaxagoras and Democritus in their views of the world developed the idea of Anaximander physical reasons for infixed phenomena, Pythagoras shared his view in the mathematical harmony of the populace .\nThe Pythagoreans held sway in the Greek cities of Italy a few decades , in that locationfore were defeated and withdrew from politics. However, more than of what gave them Pythagoras , to live and had a huge adjoin on science. immediately it is very difficult to separate the persona of Pythagoras himself from the achievements of his followers. This applies especially to astronomy , in which there mother been several(pre nominal) fundamentally naked ideas . They can be judged from the extant deficient information about views later Pythagoreans and the teachings of philosophers have been influenced by the ideas of Pythagoras.