The exhibition Agorà – Science and Mathematics from the Ancient Mediterranean at the Villa dei Quintili, organized by the CNR – Public Relations and Integrated Communication Unit - in collaboration with the Appia Antica Archaeological Park, is characterized by a strong interdisciplinarity and a great visual impact, which allows visitors to travel through space and time to discover the origins of Western scientific culture and the greatest scientists of antiquity.
The theme of the exhibition highlights what the agorà was in ancient Greece, that is, not only the main square of the city, the seat of the assembly of citizens gathered to discuss issues concerning the community, but also the place of the market and the economic and political centre, where the main public buildings, offices and theaters were located. The agorà was in fact above all the place par excellence where the great philosophers of the past exposed and discussed their ideas, laying the foundations for the birth of Western philosophical and scientific thought.
Starting from this main concept, the exhibition leads us to the rediscovery of some fundamental pages in the history of science, in an ideal journey through Greece, Libya, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, touching ports and cities in every corner of the Mediterranean, the cradle of Western thought and our scientific culture. Each stop presents a small or large conquest of human thought, or a brilliant solution, conceived by some illustrious thinker of the past to respond to a practical problem of the time. Through 18 interactive stations, it is possible to experiment with theories and principles of mathematics, studies of astronomy, theorems of geometry, inventions of civil and war engineering, meeting some of the most important figures who have written the history of science and Western philosophy.
The exhibition is divided into two main areas: the first area is dedicated to Archimedes: the genius of Magna Graecia, one of the most important mathematicians of antiquity, who entered the popular imagination as the example of the scientist-inventor par excellence. We then continue in the second area, The Mediterranean beyond Archimedes, with interactive stations linked to the discoveries of other exceptional figures such as Pythagoras, Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Eratosthenes, Apollonius of Perga, Heron and, last but not least, Ipatia, the great scientist from Alexandria in Egypt.
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