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Greece - Greek Science

The Greeks measured the earth and created calendars based on astronomy, with reference to the sun, moon, and stars.

How To Use the Sieve of Eratosthenes

How to find prime numbers using the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

Hypatia of Alexandria

From your Guide. Hypatia was the last great philosopher and mathematician of Alexandria. She made geometry intelligible to her students.

Review: Hypatia of Alexandria

Review of Maria Dzielska's book on the truth behind the legend of the woman described as the body of Aphrodite and the spirit of Plato.

Archimedes

Basic information on Archimedes, the Greek mathematician of Syracuse.

Proclus Diadochus

Proclus Diadochus was the head of the Academy and a follower of Neoplatonism known for his Commentary on Euclid's Geometry.

Review - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs

Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs

Alexandrian Scholarship

This Web site of the ancient world held scrolls divided into sections mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and geometry, and philology.

Preclassical and Classical Science

Comments on the sophistication of the systems of thinking and ordering numbers in various ancient cultures.

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