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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...