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...nequality''' (after the Greek [[Ancient Greek astronomy|astronomer]] and [[Greek mathematics|mathematician]] [[Aristarchus of Samos]]; c. 310 – c. 230 BCE) ...w2.math.uconn.edu/~leibowitz/math2720s11/Greek_Trig.pdf |title=Hellenistic Astronomers and the Origins of Trigonometry |first=Gerald M. |last=Leibowitz |access-da ...

...st=Ossendrijver |first=Mathieu |date=29 Jan 2016 |title=Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time-velocity graph |jo ...nd proved by scholars of Merton college.... In principle, the qualities of Greek physics were replaced, at least for motions, by the numerical quantities th ...

...itle=The biographical dictionary of women in science pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. |date=2000 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415- ...omen as scientists, because she could be so easily compared to the ancient Greek astronomer.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Schiebinger|first=Londa|title=Feminine ...

...sfnp|Chrisomalis|2010|p=185}} Alphabetic numeral systems originated with [[Greek numerals]] around 600 BC and became largely extinct by the 16th century.{{s ...History of the Greek alphabet#Standardization – the Ionic alphabet|archaic Greek script]] used in [[Ionia]].{{sfnp|Chrisomalis|2010|p=135–138}} ...

...t=Ossendrijver |first=Mathieu |date=Jan 29, 2016 |title=Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter's position from the area under a time-velocity graph |jo ...odicals/convergence/on-squares-rectangles-and-square-roots-square-roots-in-ancient-chinese-mathematics |access-date=2022-11-03 |website=www.maa.org}}</ref> ...

...7=M. G.| journal=Nature| volume=444 Supplement| title=Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism| bibcode=2006Nat In the 1910s, several astronomers calculated the precession of perihelion according to special relativity. Th ...

Astronomers and great thinkers of the past were able to record observations and attempt ...e]] has also been proposed.<ref name=nyt>{{Cite news|title=How Old Is This Ancient Vision of the Stars?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/science/nebra-s ...

...her or mother of a field|father]] of trigonometry".{{sfnp|Boyer|1991 |loc="Greek Trigonometry and Mensuration" |p=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmath ...similar method.<ref>{{cite book|author=Otto Neugebauer |title=A history of ancient mathematical astronomy. 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vO5FCVIxz2 ...

...nstrating his mastery of all three languages. It is said that he also knew Greek. His writings concern nearly every branch of the Islamic sciences, from ast ...h religious ("Islamic") topics and non-religious or secular subjects ("the ancient sciences")."</ref> His works include the definitive Arabic versions of the ...

=== Ancient and imperial era === ...an spirits representing 11 pm to 1 am (left) and 5 am to 7 am (right); the ancient Chinese, although discussing it in supernatural terms, acknowledged [[circa ...

...aad8085 |pmid=26823423 |s2cid=206644971}}</ref> South of Egypt the [[Nubia|ancient Nubians]] established a system of geometry including early versions of sun ...ity by Hippasus of Metapontum |year=1945 |title=Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics |series=Annals of Mathematics; Boston Studies in the Philosophy ...

...Gregorian year. Thus Pitatus's solution would have commended itself to the astronomers.{{sfnp|Swerdlow|1986}} ...gle.com/books?id=nS51_7qbEWsC&pg=PA169 |title= The history and practice of ancient astronomy |location= Oxford |publisher= Oxford University Press | year=1998 ...

*'''[[Boris Farmakovsky]]''', archaeologist of [[Ancient Greek]] colony [[Olbia, Ukraine|Olbia]] *'''[[Lev Gumilev]]''', historian and ethnologist, prominent researcher of ancient [[Central Asia]]n peoples, related [[ethnogenesis]] and [[biosphere]], infl ...

...ame=TAJ201601/><ref name=Sheppard2014/><ref name=fatty/> Nonetheless, some astronomers question this conclusion and instead assert that the clustering of the ETNO In 2014, astronomers [[Chad Trujillo]] and [[Scott S. Sheppard]] noted the similarities in the o ...

...ook|last=Gutas |first=Dimitri |author-link=Dimitri Gutas |date=1998 |title=Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad ...me into existence through a gigantic endeavor to acquire and translate the ancient sciences of the Greeks between the eighth and ninth centuries. The translat ...

...he other planets, all of which were named for deities in [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and Roman mythology.<ref group="lower-alpha">One could argue that it is t ...last=Ian |date=25 September 2019 |title=Planetary Linguistics {{!}} Latin, Greek, Sanskrit & Different Languages |url=https://nineplanets.org/planetary-ling ...

A fleeting hint of an ancient decimal or metric system may be found in the [[Mohenjo-Daro#Ruler|Mohenjo-D Decimal multiples of these units were defined by Greek [[SI prefix|prefixes]]: ''"[[myria-]]"'' (10,000), ''"[[kilo-]]"'' (1000), ...

...t the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. With a preface and notes on the Greek and Egyptian measures of length by Sir Henry James |periodical=Philosophica ...e of {{Sfrac|1|334}} was found for the Earth's flattening. However, French astronomers knew from earlier estimates of the Earth's flattening that different meridi ...

...=www.spacedictionary.com |language=en}}</ref> The term is derived from the Greek word ''anemos'', which means [[wind]], and is used to describe any wind spe ...he [[orbit]] of an [[physical body|object]]. The word comes via Latin from Greek and is [[cognate]] with ''[[apse]]''.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://d ...

...s, and [[meteors]] (cf. [[Historical comet observations in China]]). Early astronomers were interested in understanding these phenomena. ...the orbit of Jupiter. They are divided into the [[List of Jupiter trojans (Greek camp)|Greeks]] at [[Lagrange point|L4]] (ahead of Jupiter) and the [[List o ...