Science in classical antiquity encompasses inquiries into the workings of the world or universe aimed at both practical goals as well as more abstract investigations belonging to natural philosophy. C
The Ptolemaic system of celestial motion as depicted in the Harmonia Macrocosmica (1661)
The physician Hippocrates, known as the "Father of Modern Medicine"
A mosaic depicting Plato's Academy, from the Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus in Pompeii (1st century AD)
George Trebizond's Latin translation of Ptolemy's Almagest (c. 1451)
Ancient Greek astronomy
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Ancient Greek astronomy is the astronomy written in the Greek language during classical antiquity. Greek astronomy is understood to include the Ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Greco-Roman, and late antiqu
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Aristarchus's 3rd-century BCE calculations on the relative sizes of (from left) the Sun, Earth and Moon, from a 10th-century CE Greek copy
Greek equatorial sun dial, Ai-Khanoum, Afghanistan 3rd-2nd century BCE.