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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...
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    calendar Egyptian mathematics History of astronomy Babylonian astronomy Ancient Greek astronomy Medieval Islamic astronomy Nabta Playa Sothic cycle The "Hermetic"...
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  • Various ancient Greek calendars began in most states of ancient Greece between autumn and winter except for the Attic calendar, which began in summer....
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    Urania (redirect from Muse of astronomy)
    yoor-AY-nee-ə; Ancient Greek: Οὐρανία, romanized: Ouranía; modern Greek shortened name Ράνια Ránia; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology...
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    Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries...
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    The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪˈkɪθɪərə/ AN-tih-KIH-ther-ə) is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System), described as the oldest...
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    the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics who followed him accepted his planetary model. The Ancient Greeks developed astronomy, which they treated...
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    difference between Greek mathematics and those of preceding civilizations. Greek mathēmatikē ("mathematics") derives from the Ancient Greek: μάθημα, romanized: máthēma...
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    an earthbound observer; it feels solid, stable, and stationary. Ancient Greek, ancient Roman, and medieval philosophers usually combined the geocentric...
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    Spherical Earth (category Ancient Greek astronomy)
    century BC, when it appears in the writings of Greek philosophers. In the 3rd century BC, Hellenistic astronomy established the roughly spherical shape of...
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