1. Plato
... men of Athens. He did this by engaging in casual conversations with whomever he happened to meet on the streets. When Socrates told the court that if set free, he would not stop this practice, claiming that he must follow the voice of his god over the dictates of the state, the court found him guilty and he was executed one month ... the nature of science. Plato was a believer in the "quadrivium" which is about four math fields of study in the liberal arts, which begins with arithmetic, then to plane geometry, solid geometry, and lastly astronomy and harmonics. Plato believed that knowl...
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