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Jul 2, 2024 · List of the Greatest Minds of All Time, throughout history. This list represents the most influential thinkers across various disciplines, ranked in a way that represents the power of their ideas and their impact on the world.
- Aristotle
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- Aristotle
1 day ago · Archimedes of Syracuse (/ ˌ ɑːr k ɪ ˈ m iː d iː z / AR-kim-EE-deez; c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.
Jun 26, 2024 · Medium. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company. Published: 2007. Pages: 896. This comprehensive and engaging narrative covers many ancient civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, early China, Greece, and Rome. Bauer's accessible writing and use of primary sources make complex historical events understandable and interesting.
Jun 17, 2024 · Arrian, a Greek historian and philosopher of the 2nd century ce, relied on the works of two writers nearly contemporary with Alexander, Ptolemy (subsequently king of Egypt) and the historian Aristobulus. Arrian’s tradition, which is regarded as the more “official” of the two, shifts the blame away from the Macedonians.
- Simon Hornblower
Jun 24, 2024 · Cyrus the Great (born 590–580 bce, Media, or Persis [now in Iran]—died c. 529, Asia) was a conqueror who founded the Achaemenian empire, centred on Persia and comprising the Near East from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River.
- Cyrus the Great was the founder of the Achaemenian Empire. His empire, stretching from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River, was the largest that had...
- In Herodotus’s historically dubious account of Cyrus’s upbringing, Cyrus overthrows his grandfather Astyages and unites the latter’s Median kingdom...
- Cyrus’s career as a military leader began in earnest in 550 BCE, when he rose up against his Median overlord (and by some accounts, his grandfather...
- The Greek historian Herodotus provides the most famous account of Cyrus’s life in his History, a work that was probably as much fiction as it was f...
- Little is known about the last years of Cyrus’s life, and various contradicting stories of his death exist. It’s clear that he died while campaigni...
Jun 28, 2024 · Aryabhata (born 476, possibly Ashmaka or Kusumapura, India) was an astronomer and the earliest Indian mathematician whose work and history are available to modern scholars. He is also known as Aryabhata I or Aryabhata the Elder to distinguish him from a 10th-century Indian mathematician of the same name.
Jun 30, 2024 · TRAVEL TRENDS, WORLD Updated : Jun 30, 2024, 09:36 IST World’s oldest languages and their origins The world is home to more than 7,100 languages today, with nearly 40% endangered. These ...
