The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...
Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.
To wrest this sentence from its context, and to take it as a characteristic ex pression of a prominent aspect of Greek science, is to do no great violence to truth. The modern conception of ...