Archimedes
The Complete History of Science
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Introduction
Ptolemy created detailed, complex and largely accurate models of the solar system. But these were possible due to a slow process of refinement which had started with udoxus 500 years earlier. Likewise, when Hipparchus measured the size and distances of the sun and moon, his estimates were based on tweaking the work of Aristarchus a century before. It could be argued that all scientific progress is the result of this incremental expansion of the work of previous generations.
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