*Greek Science & Technology*

Greek civilization created many improvements in science and technology.
Also, there were some characters that created and improve technology in that time.
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, phsychist and engineer. He explained the
principle of the lever, and worked on mechanics. The screw was another invention
of him, which helped to transfer water. In mathematics, Archimedes aproximate the
value of pie and gave the aproximate value of the square root of 3.

Pythagoras was an other important Greek mathematician. He created the
Pythagorean theorem and the Pythagoreanism religion.

Plato was a Greek philosopher and mathematician, which was the founder of the Academy of Athens. He wrote many philosophical dialogs about metaphysics, structure, women, and epistemology.

There were other inventions made, such as:
The Astrolabe: A device used to determine the location, and longitude.

The Cannon: Created by Ctesibius of Alexandria and first used with compressed air.

Crane: This devise helped Greeks in constructions by lifting heavy materials with less work.

Lever: The lever was a simple but smart way of quickly lifting heavy weights using a counter-weight.

Gears: The gears were the key for many technology inventions of that times and for the future, lever by themselves were useless.

Water Pumps: the water pumps helped to carry water to elevated places having to deal with gravity.

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Sources:
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Greeks.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/ancientgreecescience/