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...dēma'' 'swelling',<ref>{{cite web |last1= Liddell |first1=Henry | work = A Greek-English Lexicon | title = οἴδ-ημα |url= https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hoppe ...similar-looking but unrelated word ''[[odometer]]'', derived from Ancient Greek [[:wikt:ὁδός|ὁδός]] (''hodos'' 'path') which refers to a device to measure ...

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

...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 ...

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...]] known as the [[Septuagint]], made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the [[Septuagint]] version include [[Codex Vaticanus]] ('''B ...eeches and movements concerned with peace and the adaptation of [[military technology]] to peaceful uses have adopted the phrase "[[Swords to ploughshares|swords ...

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...rlink= Henry Barclay Swete |title= An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek |publisher= Macmillan and Co. |location=Cambridge |year=1902 |url= https:// # a royal bulla with the inscription in ancient Hebrew script: "Belonging to '''Hezekiah''' [son of] Ahaz king of Judah" (b ...

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...r drugs in humans in ancient Egyptian and Babylonian in 3000 BCE. In these ancient cities, topical medications like [[ointments]] and [[potion]]s were used on ...tween 130 and 200 AD. This development was made by [[Claudius Galenus]], a Greek physician. He first loaded the herb medication to Western medicine and form ...

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==== Ancient tactics ==== ...allow them to take charge.<ref>Davies 2009, pp. 693-694</ref> In ancient [[Ancient China|China]], the country's geographical landscape influenced the ways arm ...

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...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 The ancient Hebrews, like all the ancient peoples of the Near East, believed the sky was a solid dome with the [[Sun] ...

| title = Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology ...= Bryan H.|author2=Alexander Hellemans| title = The history of science and technology| publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt| year = 2004 ...