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Science in antiquity
After 3500 B.C., when cuneiform writing was developed and recorded history began, science first emerged among stargazing astronomer-priests in ancient west Asia. The gods were identified with the stars (which could influence events on earth); "foundation cosmologies" expressed a view of how the world began, usually with flood themes related to the end of the Ice Age in 8000 B.C. ...
- "After 3500 B.C., when cuneiform writing was developed and recorded history began, science first emerged among stargazing astronomer-priests in ancient west Asia. The gods were identified with the stars (which could influence events on earth); "foundation cosmologies" expressed a view of how the world began, usually with flood themes related to the end of the Ice Age in 8000 B.C. ..."@en
- ""The scientific impulse can be said to have existed forever. But only with the written word did there emerge a record of speculations about how and why things happen. Middle Eastern civilizations developed ways to measure and describe (e.g. math and the alphabet); Greek philosophers classified natural objects and studied cause and effect. This is the story of ancient science, from Asia to the Mediterranean Basin.""@en
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