More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...

Europe's debt to Islamic scholarship is counted up in this sketchy intellectual history. Freely (Strolling Through Athens), a historian of science, surveys the work of ancient Greek thinkers from ...

Greek soldiers of the pre-Christian era had their own type of concentrated K-rations, even as the G.I.s of World War II. Philo of Byzantium, one of the leading Greek war correspondents, was ...

The Greek world. The managerial societies -- Scientists in Greece -- Greek science and politics -- The Hellenistic world. Science and subsidy -- War the quest for certainty -- The Roman world. Science ...