Question

Renaissance humanists helped lay the foundation for the scientific revolution by recovering the works of Greek philosophers such as ___________, who argued that the world operated according to mechanical forces best understood through mathematics.

Answer 1

Answer:

Archimedes.

Explanation:

The scientific revolution was a series of events that allowed the emergence of modern science. Developments began to happen in fields like mathematics, physics, biology, anatomy, astronomy, chemistry, etc. This began to transform the views of nature and society. As the exercise says, some of this was done recovering the works of Greek philosophers such as Archimedes or Aristotle.

Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. He saw the world through mathematics, as the exercise details. Much of his work was recovered by the Renaissance humanists.