
021 - The Antikythera Mechanism and Shipwreck
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In modern times, we thought it was like 17 hundreds tobe fair the west, we think that we invented all smart stuff. That's a little bit of chronological snobbery going on there. And a lot of the stuff we know, we got from islam, right? Islamic scholars. There's a golden age of islamic mathematicians and historians were a guy named verawas who was key in that. A lot of what we learned about greek science, we actually learned through the middle east because they had a bunch of those old greek texts that we had lost. We got them back through our contact with them in the middle ages.
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