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Scientists of Rome

Scientists of Rome. By: Emily Larsson and Miranda King. Library of Alexandria. Largest and most significant library of the ancient world. Located in Alexandria, Egypt Organized by Demetrius Phalerus , the student of Aristotle Mark Anthony 200,000 scrolls as a wedding gift to the library.

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Scientists of Rome

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  1. Scientists of Rome By: Emily Larsson and Miranda King

  2. Library of Alexandria Largest and most significant library of the ancient world. Located in Alexandria, Egypt Organized by Demetrius Phalerus, the student of Aristotle Mark Anthony 200,000 scrolls as a wedding gift to the library

  3. The Library had a “daughter” library at the Temple of Serparus • The Temple of Serparus was turned into a Christian Church • The library held around 700,000 manuscripts • No one is positive how the library was destroyed

  4. Ptolemy Born in 87 A.D., in Alexandria, Egypt Died in 150 A.D. Was had Astronomer, cartographer, geographer, and math mathematician Claudius is Potolmus proper name Ptolemy held supreme sway over the minds of almost all the scientific men until the 15th century

  5. Ptolemy invented a planetary theory, the discover of the moon, evection, and the singular distinction of being the sole existing authority on the subject of ancient astronomy • He geography is divided into 8 books which include • Location of places using (Mekos) latitude and (Platos) Longitude • He constructed a series of 26 maps, together with a general map of the world, in illustration of his work • The Almagest and Geography were the first standard textbooks to succeeding ages. The first of its time until Copernicus

  6. Ptolemy cont. Ptolemy extended Hipparchus's system of epicycles and esoteric circle to explain Ptolemy’s geometric theory of the solar system Ptolemy's theory included 80 epicycles in order to explain the motion of the 5 planets, sun, and moon

  7. There was only 5 planets know during this time • He believed that the plants and sun orbited around the earth in the order of Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

  8. HERO!!! He was born in 10AD Died in 70 AD He was sometimes called Greek Geometer., who wrote about mechanical an physical subjects. He invented and improved the water organ. He was known to learn by using physical and mathematical writing. He purposed a system to solve measurement problems. He invented the a method to approximate square roots and cubic roots of numbers that are perfect squares. Identified the formula to determine the area of a triangle.

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