1. write an essay about the greek scientist or mathematician you selected. make sure your essay includes an introduction with a thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion that summarizes your ideas.
(a) refer to your outline and taking notes sheet as you compose your essay. if you need additional information to support your ideas, find it now. remember, the outline and essay should match each other.
(b) use your thesis statement from your taking notes sheet to introduce the essay. the introduction should get the reader's attention and set the scene, so you may want to add some historical information or an explanation before or after the thesis statement. the introduction should tell the reader what the essay is about. don't write more than four or five sentences.
(c) follow your outline as you write the body of your essay. use the topic sentences you wrote in your outline. explain or support the topic sentences with information from the corresponding section of the outline. write a concluding sentence that connects back to the thesis statement. use the same procedure to write each of the supporting paragraphs.
(d) write a concluding paragraph that summarizes the main ideas of the essay and restates the thesis statement in some way. write no more than four or five sentences.

      Natural philosophy, being the precursor to modern day science, was greatly developed in ancient Greece. Like other ancient societies and cultures, the Greeks believed that the world around them was the result of divine intervention (The Ionian Philosophers, 3). Therefore, they based early Greek science around their polytheistic religion in an attempt to answer questions about the world they lived in. However, unlike other religions, their religion wasn't nearly as stringent as others. The Greeks practiced a religion which allowed for free scientific thought. This gave way to the great natural philosophers and scholars. These men, including Thales of Miletus, Aristotle, Democritus, and Pythagoras, among many others, used the scientific method to explain the physical world around them. The use of these sciences was employed in the fields of mathematics, medicine, astronomy and biology in order to improve aspects of Greek life. It also helped to dominate the Mediterranean Sea region, which would be a forerunner to the Roman Empire that borrowed heavily from Greek culture.
             The scientific method was used by Greek philosophers in order to hypothesize and theorize about the natural world around them. However, the first research that was done was incoherent and could not be proved. Many philosophers made up information in order to try and prove their theories, but this did not work since there was no proof. It took many years for the scientific method to be perfected and valid. To this day, the scientific method from ancient Greece has had a major impact on scientific thought. The father of this study was a man named Thales of Miletus (Violatti). He was the first person who tried to explain what he saw in the natural world around him (The Ionian Philosophers, 7). Thales formulated knowledge about the physical world around him rather than relying on the supernatural explanations of the world that the Greek mythical religion supplie