I take that as a compliment.

Thanks!

Shot in the dark, but I'm going with Achemedis (that isn't even spelled right!)

Pretty darn close! The correct answer is Aristotle.

This took place in Athens in 323BC. Aristotle was forced to leave his beloved Peripatetic School, and flee to an island called Euboea. Despite the fact that most of Aristotle's observations were indeed wrong and did in fact slow the progress of science, he is renowned as probably the greatest scientist of Ancient Greece.

One of the greatest philosophers of Rome, Eudemos, was mysteriously ill with a fever. The greatest physicians of Rome had tried, without success, to heal him. He was close to death, when a young upstart physician arrived in Rome. When asked which of the many physicians' sects he belonged to, he answered, "I belong to no sect, and regard as slaves those who accept as final the teachings of Hippocrates or anyone else."

Who was this man, who revolutionised medicine?

Very Funny.

I don't know but I like how he thinks.

Then you would like the name of Galen for that is the answer.

When Galen was once seriously ill, his father, Nicon, fearful of losing his only son, prayed throughout the night at the shrine of Ascelepius, the son of Apollo, the God of Medicine. It is said he had a vision that his son would surivive if he would in future become a physician. It seems that fate had indeed planned out Galen's life for he came to become the first great physician of the Anno Domini era.

A young professor of astronomy was lecturing to a group of enthusiatic students. He was continuing with his exposition of the Ptolemaic theory, when a student asked, "Learned professor, did not the great Pythagoras dispute Ptolemy, saying that it is not the earth that is the center of the universe, but the sun?" The professor was about to respond as he had done so before, that Aristotle had refuted Pythagoras, as Man, the crowning glory of the universe, must logically be located at its center, when he suddenly found that he no longer truly believed what he was teaching. He abruptly dismissed the class and left.

Who was this man, who would in the future, turn the world of astronomy on its head with his revolutionary thoughts?

It might be too obvious, but I'm thinking his observations led to his infamy, so I'll say "Gallileo"

Galileo was also a brilliant man! The correct answer was Copernicus.

Nicolaus Copernicus did more than merely propound the helio-centric theory, he changed the face of science for ever. By refuting Ptolemy, he ended forever the strangehold that Ptolemy held on science for so many centuries after his death.

The crowd gathered at the dock openly ridiculed the young upstart who called himself a scientist. How could a mortal man lift a ship weighing thousands of pounds? King Hieron stepped towards the ship and the crowd fell silent. The King pulled on a rope. "Pull harder, Your Majesty", urged the young scientist standing by his side, who would in the future, change the world of physics for all time. The King grasped the rope and pulled. As if by magic the stern of the ship rose out of the sea. A roar of aclaim rose up, and the King turned to congratulate the young man standing by his side. "You have indeed triumphed again. It is true, the wonders of science are without limit."

Who was this young man?

Archimedes?

Great job! This must be way too easy for you SkyHook5652! The answer is Archimedes.

Soon after this episode, the Roman general Marcellus took the city of Syracuse (Sicily), of which Archimedes was a citizen. In this time of war, the King turned to Archimedes to help stave off the Roman offensive. Archimedes developed huge concave mirrors with which he burned the Roman flotilla. He invented enormous grappling irons and cranes that would pick up the Roman ships and dash then against the walls of the city. Such was his fame, that Plutarch reports that Roman soldiers used to flee when they saw anything that could be one of his inventions.

Tension mounted in the mind of the young Flemish medical student as he listened to the monotonous reading of an ancient and worn treatise on the anatomy of the body.

He watched in frustration as inept barber-surgeons hacked away at the corpse with their unskilled hands. Finally, he could take no more, and with a fearful look at the professor, he elbowed his way forward and pushed the assistants aside.

To the amazement of all, he then proceeded to separate and expose each organ and tissue with a skill that no one there had ever seen before. The professor at the University of Paris was dumbfounded at the brashness of this young man.

But he, Jacobus Sylvius, was forced to allow the student to continue the dissection. Thus was born a feud that would ultimately prevent the young student from pursuing his greatest love, anatomy.

Who was this student?

Well who was this student!?

I've been waiting for an answer to this myself. SO just to get you to tell us, I'm gonna take a shot in the dark...

Andreas Vesalius?

Well it is about time someone answered!

Your Answer is correct Sky Hook5652!


Sylvius went on to cause the ostracism of the greatest anatomist of all ages, when he condemned his former student, Vesalius as "an unprincipled upstart", and a "madman whose pestilential teachings were poisoning Europe". Vesalius was shocked at this, and left Paris for ever. He went to Padua where he came face to face with the heavy hand of the Inquisition, under whom he could "not even lay his hand on a dry skull, let alone have the chance of making a dissection". In this way, the greatest anatomist of this world was forced to die in sorrow, all due to an imagined slight. We can only guess what kinds of discoveries he might have made if allowed to live out the path he was destined to, that of the greatest dissector known to man.

In the early part of the seventeenth century, in a middle class home in France, a young twelve year old boy, was busy working with mathematical diagrams, trying desperately to prove that the sum of the angles of a triangle was two right angles. As the young boy had not yet been introduced to geometry, he had created his own names for straight lines and circles, calling them "bars" and "rounds".

Who was this young boy, destined to change the world of physics with his experiments on fluids?

Blaise Pascal as in pascals wager lmao