AY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ancient Greek Astronomy
Greek Astronomy
The greatest influence on western astronomy comes from ancient Greece. Greek
philosophers were the first to apply mathematics to attempt to understand the universe
more deeply than for simple predictive purposes. Although the civilization of ancient
Greece declined, the Greek ideas that were passed to Indian and Asian colonies were
subsequently adopted by Islamic scholars, and were later introduced into Europe by
Arab invaders in the fifteenth century Table gives a listing of the Greek alphabet. These
letters note scientific quantities and are used in the naming of stars.
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