ECON 3R03 Lecture : 17-01-13
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Course: econ 3r03 - the history of economic growth. Study of geometry did not begin with euclid he was simply summarizing what was known at the time. Even though the chinese had interactions with the arabic world they didn"t encounter euclidean geometry until the. Euclid also wrote on optics and many of his books were translated pretty soon after by the arabs. He created a map of the known world to the greeks at the time, plotting everything in terms of latitude and longitude, with great accuracy. His map- ping work was hugely in uential but also led unknowningly to the discovery of the new world. Ptolemy"s map made the distance to china via the west seem much shorter than it actually was which caused columbus to set out for. His astronomy model remained the gold standard until the copernican revolution. The antikythera sunk around 100bc, in the early 1900s the rst artifacts were recovered from the shipwreck.