The Greek Philosophers

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1. First off, what does the word philosopher mean? lover of wisdom discoverer scientific teachers thinker

2. The first of the important Greek philosophers (born around 624 B.C.) is considered to be whom? Ptolemy Eratosthenes Pythagoras Thales

3. Which Greek philosopher is often called the Founder of Astronomy? Anaximenes Anaximander Aristarchus Anaxagoras

4. Who thought that stars (along with souls, the sun, and the moon)were made of something he called 'aer' and that the stars burned? Aristotle Anaximenes Plato Aristarchus

5. Which Greek philosopher taught that the earth was a globe and that it was fixed within a sphere that held the stars (he also taught a certain theorem of his, A squared plus B squared equals C squared)? Pythagoras Eratosthenes Anaximenes Aristotle

6. Which Greek philosopher theorized that solar eclipses were caused by the passage of the moon between the sun and the earth (which was correct)? Anaxagoras Plato Aristarchus Eratosthenes

7. Who proposed that the sun is at the center of the solar system (as opposed to the earth) and that the earth orbits it while rotating (about 2000 years before Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the same theory)? Anaximenes Aristotle Aristarchus Anaximander

8. Which Greek philosopher estimated the size of the earth using only a few sticks (he was within 4 percent of what we know it to be today)? Eratosthenes Plato Anaximander Aristarchus

9. Who, in old age, commited suicide by starvation because he had gone blind and was deprived of his ability to observe? Ptolemy Anaximenes Eratosthenes Thales

10. Which Greek philosopher reasoned that heavier objects would fall to the earth faster than lighter objects? Thales Aristotle Anaximander Eratosthenes