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4. God's Truth is that...
Sun Jun 30, 2024, 04:25 PM
Jun 2024

...we give credit to Greeks, Romans and Europeans for discoveries made long before by other cultures such as Chinese, Indian and Arabian.

The Pythagorean Theorem, for example, was known to the Babylonians about 2000 BCE and to the Indians in about 800 BCE. Pythagoras lived from ~570-495 BCE.

Iranians were questioning Ptolemy's earth-centered universe by the 11th Century.

Also fun to note is that an ancient Greek (Aristarchus, from the same city where Pythagoras was born a few centuries earlier) outlined his idea of a sun-centered solar-system (and, also the universe) in about 200BCE

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