1. The Thinking Men Produced by Zeke Satloff

2. In the Beginning Before these thinkers came about for the Greeks, there was no understanding for how the world worked. Their belief was that a human being had to go from nonexistence to birth and life, then finally back to death, decay, and nonexistence.

3. Greek Thinking The Greeks had no idea how the world around them worked. So the question that they were trying to find an answer to was “What made the world work?” There were only three guidelines, there must be an unchanging, ultimate, and eternal reality.

4. Why Greek Technology and Greek Thinking Connect The Greeks needed an answer to their question. Their ways and means was coming up with technologies to help them answer their question.

5. Mathematics Miletus is the birthplace of Greek mathematics. The Greeks also founded Calculus. The center of Greek mathematics was in Athens until Alexander the Great moved it to Alexandria, Egypt. Lastly, the Greeks also had numerous schools, where some of the greatest minds ever taught.

6. Science The birth of the Greeks science is also in Miletus. Anaxanger was the first person to come with a theory on the beginnings of creation, and is quoted to say that “everything has a share of everything”.

7. Greek Medicine and Measurements Greek medicine departed from the divine and mystical and moved toward observation and logical reasoning. Some common terms for Greek measurements are daktyloi for one digit, and pygon for twenty.

8. The Importance of Greek Thinking Although the story of the struggle of Greeks trying to understand the world around them is not an obvious topic to learn. It is an important one because they were first to truly attempt to understand this world.

9. FYI (For your Information) In 404 B.C. Athens lost the war to the Spartans, and no longer was thinking the sole province of science, mathematics, and philosophy. Their thinking guides our thinking, and will so forever.