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18 07, 2017

Who was Hipparchus? Greek astronomy

By |2019-08-15T17:58:13-07:00July 18th, 2017|Greeks, History, Science|Comments Off on Who was Hipparchus? Greek astronomy

Antikythera mechanism: a clockwork machine to calculate how the earth and the sun move around When did Hipparchus live? Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician in the 100s BC, in the time [...]

14 06, 2017

Ptolemies and Cleopatra – Greek Egypt

By |2019-06-01T12:41:50-07:00June 14th, 2017|Africa, Egypt, Greeks, History, Science|Comments Off on Ptolemies and Cleopatra – Greek Egypt

Ptolemy I Soter, on a coin (He's trying to look like Alexander) Alexander conquers Egypt In 332 BC Alexander the Great and his Greek army conquered Egypt from the Persians who [...]

19 05, 2017

African Science and African Inventions – History of Science

By |2019-05-30T21:16:16-07:00May 19th, 2017|Africa, History, Science|Comments Off on African Science and African Inventions – History of Science

African science: Standing stones at Nabta Playa (modern Sudan), ca. 6000 BC The earliest scientists African people made the earliest, and the most important, scientific inventions. And they kept on [...]

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