Strato of Lampsacus (c.340 BC–c.268 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, who was mainly interested in physics, and the third director of the Lyceum after the death of Theophrastus. Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC - 340s BC - 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC Years: 345 BC 344 BC 343 BC 342 BC 341 BC - 340 BC - 339 BC 338 BC... Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC - 260s BC - 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 273 BC 272 BC 271 BC 270 BC 269 BC 268 BC - 267 BC 266 BC 265... Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... The willingness to question previously held truths and search for new answers resulted in a period of major scientific advancements, now known as the Scientific Revolution. ... A lyceum is most often used today to denote either an educational institution (most often a school of secondary education in parts of Europe) or a public hall used for cultural events like concerts. ... Theophrastus, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school, a native of Eresus in Lesbos, was born c. ...

He expanded on Aristotle's physics, noticing that falling objects (e.g. rainwater off a roof) accelerate as they reach the ground rather than falling at a steady rate as Aristotle foretold. Aristotle (sculpture) Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs) (384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. ... The willingness to question previously held truths and search for new answers resulted in a period of major scientific advancements, now known as the Scientific Revolution. ... Rain Rain is a form of precipitation, other forms of which include snow, sleet, hail, and dew. ... A roof is the top covering of a building that prevents the ingress of weather into the building interior. ... Acceleration is the time rate of change of velocity, and at any point on a v_t graph, it is given by the gradient of the tangent to that point In physics, acceleration (symbol: a) is defined as the rate of change (or time derivative) of velocity. ...

Belonging to the Peripatetic school of philosophers, another one of his teachings was the doctrine of the void, postulating that all bodies contained a void of variable size, which also accounted for weight differences between bodies. The Peripatetics were a school of philosophy in ancient Greece. ... Void can refer to: The absence of matter, a vacuum. ...

Strato can also be regarded as the first philosopher to formulate an atheist worldview, in which the universe is regarded as a mechanism and transcendent forces (i.e. deities) are nonexistent. For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... Mechanism is the following: In general, a mechanism is part of a chain of causes leading to some object or process. ... This list of deities aims at giving information about deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. ...

One of his students was Aristarchus. Aristarchus (310 BC _ circa 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born in Samos, Greece. ...