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...ng|grc|σ}}, word-final lowercase {{lang|grc|ς}}) is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet. * ''[[Space City Sigma]]'', a 1980s Indian science fiction TV series ...

...[[uniform acceleration]],<ref>[[Edward Grant]] ''A Source Book in Medieval Science'' (1974) Vol. 1, p. 252.</ref> was discovered in the 14th century by the [[ ...graph |journal=Science |volume=351 |issue=6272 |pages=482–484 |doi=10.1126/science.aad8085 |bibcode = 2016Sci...351..482O |pmid=26823423|s2cid=206644971 }}</r ...

...rldcat.org/oclc/1239333055 |title=Forces of nature : the women who changed science |date=2021 |others=Leila McNeill |isbn=978-0-7112-4897-7 |location=London, ...mithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lady-astronomer-who-took-on-most-advanced-science-180962142/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language= ...

This argument form traces back to [[Ancient Greek philosophy]] and has been used throughout history in both formal mathematic ==Greek philosophy== ...

The '''table of chords''', created by the [[Greece|Greek]] astronomer, geometer, and geographer [[Ptolemy]] in [[Egypt]] during the {{main|Greek numerals}} ...

Historically, [[Aeolus]] was the Greek ruler of the winds, and the [[Ancient Greeks]] believed these sounds were the voice of Aeolus. ...l2000>{{cite book | first=Daniel R. | last=Raichel | year=2000 | title=The science and applications of acoustics | series=AIP series in modern acoustics and s ...

[[Babylonian mathematics|Babylonian]] and [[Ancient Egyptian mathematics|Egyptian mathematics]] solving quadratic equations ==== Greek geomety ==== ...

...]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B'''; ...was already international, with the texts of wisdom from the whole of the ancient Near East (as found in archaeology) containing accumulated general knowledg ...

|title=Dynamic Symmetry: The Greek Vase ...him, root-2, 3, 4 and 5 rectangles are often found in Gothic and Classical Greek and Roman art, objects and architecture, while rectangles with aspect ratio ...

...ical field of [[combinatorics]] was studied to varying degrees in numerous ancient [[Society|societies]]. Its study in [[Europe]] dates to the work of [[Leon ...ations]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Heath|first1=Sir Thomas|title=A history of Greek mathematics|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofgreekma0002heat|url-ac ...

The discovery of this curve is attributed to the Greek sophist [[Hippias|Hippias of Elis]], who used it around 420 BC in an attemp ...ppias is a [[transcendental curve]]. It is one of several curves used in [[Greek mathematics]] for squaring the circle. ...

...e that evening (e.g., in the [[Islamic calendar]]). In [[Egyptian calendar|ancient Egypt]], the lunar month began on the day when the waning moon could no lon ...s|Lunar cycles]] are prominent, and calculated with great precision in the ancient Hindu [[Panchangam]] calendar, widely used in the Indian subcontinent.{{cit ...

| language = [[Ancient Greek]] ...ὴν γῆν|translit=dṓs moi poû stṓ kaí kinô tḗn gên|links=no}}), though other ancient testimonia are ambiguous regarding the context of the saying.<ref>Quoted by ...

...ics)|torsion]] to launch projectiles. They were initially developed by the ancient Macedonians, specifically [[Philip II of Macedon]] and [[Alexander the Grea === Greek === ...

...t of his inspiration was the [[The Bell Laboratory Science Series|Bell Lab Science Series]] of films from the 1950s.<ref name="Solomon" /> ...2</sup> = c²). The [[theorem]] is named after [[Pythagoras]] of ancient Greece. [[Pythagorean triple]]s occur when all three sides of a right trian ...

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=== Ancient Greece === ...tegers.<ref>[[Morris Kline|Kline, M.]] (1990). ''Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times'', Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press (original work ...

...rlink= Henry Barclay Swete |title= An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek |publisher= Macmillan and Co. |location=Cambridge |year=1902 |url= https:// ...eology of the Siloam Tunnel, Jerusalem |journal= Journal of Archaeological Science |volume=33 |issue=2 |year=2006 |pages= 227–237 |doi= 10.1016/j.jas.2005.07. ...

...mb|The first page of the [[Codex Gigas]], with biblical alphabets: Hebrew, Greek and Latin, in addition: Ethiopic and Coptic]] ...lations of the first millennium that were not translated directly from the Greek original, but based on another translation (based on the ''[[Vulgate]]'', [ ...

{{Short description|Ancient Indian alphasyllabic numeral system}} ...Malayalam: [[:ml:പരല്‍പ്പേര്|പരല്‍പ്പേര്]]) of numerical notation is an [[ancient]] [[India]]n [[alphasyllabic numeral system]] to depict [[letter (alphabet) ...