Androcles
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| Born | 412 - 415 BCE Pollum, Syara |
| Died | 341 BCE |
| Known for | Measured methodology, philosophy |
Androcles was an Kydonian philosopher, mathematician, and scientist best known for creating the Measured Methodolgy, a scientific process of proving facts through empirical testing.
Androcles was born sometime between 412 to 415 BCE in the town of Pollum, in present day Makedon. A citizen of the Kydonian League, Androcles travelled extensively across ancient Syara attending various festivals, symposiums, and religious rituals. While much of his early life is uknown, he is recorded as traveling as far south as Hayreniky and possible as far west as modern day Sopron. Around middle age he began postulating the idea of the demonstrated reality, the idea that only that which can be proven to exist through demonstration can be ascertained to be true. This idea proved controversial, especially when dealing with the metaphysical, and Androcles was forced to leave several settlements for his questioning of the existence of the Syaran pantheon, although there is no evidence he fully denied their divinity. Nevertheless, he pressed on and in 354 BCE he published a treatise known as the Measured Methodolgy, which conditioned fact finding on the ability to produce empirical evidence through rigorous testing. Measured Methodology would go on to form the basis of the scientific method. Androcles died in 341 BCE.
Although controversial by cotemporary standards, Androcles is widely considered one of Syara's most influential and renowned philosophers. Although he authored only a dozen works, most of it has survived to this day and are standard literature in many universities and colleges. Today Androcles remains well known, though often for various other reasons; he (correctly) postulated that humans could never fly by flapping artificial wings like birds, proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, and theorized that diseases were caused by small creatures rather than foul odors. Many urban myths about Androcles exist, including that he died while proving that humans couldn't fly, or that he swallowed a poison to prove its negative affects. In modern Syara the name Androcles is often used to describe someone as intelligent, sometimes sardonically.