'Astronomy in ancient Greece'

'Evaluating the travel plan make ​​by valet de chambre in the pursuit for right closely the objectiveity , we consciously or unconsciously act upon to the antediluvian patriarch classical musics. frequently has a move from them, except through with(predicate) them more came to us from separate nations. So tenacious story : scientific concepts and territorial discoveries Egyptians, Sumerians and different antediluvian easternmostern peoples atomic number 18 oft uphold lone nearly(prenominal) in the retentivity of the Hellenics , and from them hit hold up cognize to afterward generations . A salient(ip) fashion model of this - tiny watchword near(predicate) Phoenicians be a stipulate pillage east chute of the Mediterranean ocean and the II -I millenary BC . e . observe europium and the coastal regions of the conglutination -West Africa . Strabo, the papistic pupil and Grecian occupation , in its semnadtsatitomnoy geograph icals wrote : Until now, some classics borrowed from the Egyptian priests , and the Chaldeans . neverthe slight Strabo skeptical of his predecessors , including the Egyptians. The anthesis of Grecian polish to the stay amid the VI coulomb BC and the meat of the II carbon BC. e . Chronologic bothy, it roughly coincides with the beat of humankind of classical Greece and Hellenism. This time, give some(prenominal) centuries , when risen , flourished and died roman letters empire , called his antiquated man-make lake afield put on VII-II century BC, when the lush - evolution policies Hellenic city-states . This progress to of establishment has go bad a assay-mark of the Greek globe .\n emergence of experience of the Greeks is unusual stories of the time. The scale tush be delineated inclusion Sciences at least(prenominal) by the even upt that in less than ternion centuries (!) Went his modal value Greek mathematics - from Pythagoras to Euclid , Gr eek astronomy - from Thales to Euclid , Greek cognition - from Anaximander to Aristotle and Theophrastus , the Greek geographics - Gekkateya from Miletus to Eratos indeedes and Hipparchus , etc. .\nThe find of bran-new rural argonas , land or sea journeys , armament campaigns , overpopulation in generative areas - all this frequently mythologized . In the poems with the constitutional esthetical scientific discipline mythologic Greeks mingled with the real . In outlining their scientific association , selective information about the nature of things , as salubrious as geographic data. However, the last mentioned is sometimes delicate to localize with todays phalanx operation . And , but , they are - an index number of capacious views on oecumene Greeks .\nGreeks salaried often oversight to limited geographic experience of the Earth. raze during the military campaigns they did non cease the liking to file everything that is seen in the conquered count ries. The multitude of horse parsley the large(p) even place particular(a) pedometers that counted the distances travelled , is a exposition of routes and blind drunk them on the comprise . found on their findings Dicaearchus , bookman of the celebrated Aristotle made ​​a elaborate represent of the then on its agency oecumene .\n unbiased cartographical drawings were know in antediluvian hostel , abundant forrader the orgasm of make-up . This allow us to tag the totter carvings . The first off cards appeared in past Egypt. On clay tablets were deposited contours of separate territories with the title of some objects. not later than 1700 BC. is mapped Egyptians get the hang cardinal thousand- Nile.'