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For questions about events occurring in Egypt and the immediate areas around it between 3500 B.C. and 0 A.D.
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What are the earliest accounts of a scientific method?
Of course, the exact definition of the scientific method is open to discussion (and the scientific method may be very different in different sciences, compare chemistry, astronomy, geology
and mathema …
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Ancient Egyptian geometry
Greek writers of Hellenistic times indeed had a tendency to
claim that mathematics and astronomy came to Greece from Egypt. This has no confirmation whatsoever. Modern studies show that mathematics an …
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Are the ancient Egyptians and the ancient Mesopotamians really the cradles of civilization?
All these assessments about "cradle of civilization" are based on the archeological records that reached us and on surviving texts.
The oldest surviving samples of writing come from Mesopotamia (Sumer …
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How did Eratosthenes know the Sun was very far away?
We do not know for sure what Eratosthenes read, but at his time this was a common knowledge. This can be inferred from the book of Archimedes, The sand reckoner (Archimedes was Eratosthenes' contempor …
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