hakim
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- hypothesis
- an educated geus on observation
- foible
- small oddity of character
- surreptitiously
- secretly
- resin
- sap oozed from trees
- atlas
- book of maps
- observation
- to study objects thoroughly and precisely to make a scientific record
- Mesopotamia
- city-like cizilation that were located were Iraq is today
- nuclear fusion
- the joining of light atoms to make a heavy necleus
- heliocentric
- the sun centered solor system were we reside
- constancy
- changless
- ratio
- the rate between 2 number, like 5 to 2
- ziggurat
- terraced temple
- Anaximenes
- Pupil of Anaximander in Idonia (ca.570-500BC) was first to understand plants Mars and Venus were different from stars
- Anaxagoras
- Inian (ca.500-428BC) who lived in Athens, taught Socrates, did not belive the sun was god
- celestail
- sky or heaven
- sarcophagus
- stone coffin
- episle
- formal; used to adress an important idea or belief
- compound
- to combine elements together
- ca.
- short for cira meaning about
- Thales
- was the first pholosipher/mathmaticion lived in 6th centry BC.
- theory
- a set of ideas, concepts, principles, or methods used to explain a wide set of observed facts
- Pythagoran Theorem
- the square root of the hypotenuse(the longest side) of a right triangle equals the sum of the squares of the 2 other sides
- pious
- people who are religous
- astrology
- study of the stars and planets
- B.C.E.
- before common Era
- azure
- sky-blue; comes from the persion word lapis lazuli(a blue meterial)
- C.E.
- commen era
- Pythagoras
- thought that everything in the universe had a mathmatical formula and that math was god's way of thinking. was the first to think that the earth was round, and that there was other spheres out there (planets); was the first to figure out that the morning star and the evening star were the same thing. came up with the Pythagoran theorem
- Homer
- blind poet from Idonia
- lapis lazuli
- a beautiful blue gem stone
- constant
- doesn't change
- Aegean Sea
- sea between greece and turkey
- sphere
- a ball that's perfectly round
- Anaximander
- Pupil of Thales in Idonia (ca.611-ca.547BC) who was sometimes called the "Founder of Astronomy"
- catenary
- a cerve that you can form just by holding the 2 ends of a chain
- phenomenon
- an event or thing that you can see or sense, usually is amazing or special
- nucleus
- center of atom, made up of protons, neutrons, and electrons
- impiety
- disrespect for religion
- Idonian Sea
- Sea on the west side of Greece
- amber
- harden tree resin
- ferment
- a chemical change where complex organis compounds are turned into simple substances. Also means unrest, or turmoil
- Sumerians
- lived 5,000 years ago created what may have been the world's greatest civelization
- fickle
- not constant
- Empedocles
- came up witht the theory that there were 4 elements: earth water, air and fire; thought tha there were 2 fundimental forces: love and strife
- pseudoscience
- a false science
- circa
- about
- golden ratio
- the ratio of a diaganal pentigon to its side
- void
- unsessful
- nucular fission
- splitting of a heavy atom
- atom
- means not cut on greek
- baneful
- harmful, destructive, poisness
- reincarnation
- the belief that in death the soul is reborn into another human or animal. This is sometimes called the transfiguration of souls
- Democritus
- ca460BC discovered the atom
- nuclei
- plerel of nucleus
- Idonia
- there were no kings to tell people whet to do, and new traders brought in new ideas. Ordinary people were allowed to think for them selfs.
- chaos
- discord