Quotes About Greek science

The Pythagoreans were mystics, and believed that the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, and icosahedron respectively underlay the structure of the four elements of Greek science: fire, earth, air, and water. The dodecahedron they identified with the universe as a whole.

Hagia Sophia successfully marries the old Greek science of theoretical geometry to Roman skills of practical engineering

The problem was, Albert never made that lack of conflict explicit. For all his staggering erudition, he was never tempted to join up the two great existing systems of wisdom in the Western world: the school of Aristotle and Greek science and that of Plato and his Christian disciples, including Saint Augustine. That was the task Aquinas decided to undertake once he received his license to teach at the University of Paris in 1256.

Greek science on Aristotle's terms, which had already fallen into decrepitude under the late Roman Empire, will take a long hiatus during the Middle Ages.

Strato's arrival in that thriving port city was a landmark event in the history of Greek science. At one stroke Strato was leaving Athens, the ancient city of philosophers, intellectuals, and cosmopolitan aristocrats, for Alexandria, a new city of international businessmen, mathematicians, and engineers.

Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970) and Greek Science after Aristotle (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973)