ABSTRACT
Starting from the existential beginnings of science in ancient astronomy and cosmology, I was drawn to the pre-Socratic philosophers/scientists who first attempted to analyse the world in a scientific way by attaching individual reason to it. Probably because of the dynamic essence in their religious and mythical traditions, which placed them in stark contrast with the fully developed and constant religious worldview of Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Greeks felt compelled to approach the heavens with an enquiring mind. They allowed themselves to question their beliefs since their religion did not offer to them ready answers to the workings of the cosmos and so they directed the evolution of their thinking to merge the scientific and the philosophical approach.
