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 [...]
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 [...]
The earth in Greek astronomy: The Greeks never saw this view of the earth from space! Gaia and the Earth Early Greeks thought of the Earth as the goddess Gaia, the mother of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]