Hellenistic+World+Decline+-+Science+and+Mathematical+Contributions

Science
 -Aristarchus of Samos suggests all planets and Earth circle the Sun (World Book Encyclopedia, 177) -Archimedes discover basic laws of physics (177) -Eratosthenes calculated Earth's polar circumference (177) -Archimedes' screw invented to pump water from mines (Green, 1990, 367)

Medicine -Herophios provides earliest accurate description of human liver, male epididymis, casa deferentia, female ovaries, Fallopian tubes ·investigated lungs -Erasistratos conceived the heart to funtion like pump

Mathematics
-Euclid develpoed principels of geometry (World Book Encyclopedia, 2009, 177) ·proved long-known Pythagorean Theorum, demonstrate endless sequence of primes

The Decline of the Hellenistic World