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‘Scientific work such as the astronomy and geography of Eratosthenes (c[irca]276-212[BCE])* of Alexandria is known mainly from later summaries; but much that was written by the mathematicians, especially Euclid (flourished c[irca]300BC[E])** and Archimedes ((c[irca]287-212[BCE], has been preserved.

‘Much survives of the writings of the physician Galen (AD 129-199[CE]).*** His contemporary*** Sextus Empiricus is an important source**** for the history of Greek philosophy.... Greek achievement in astronomy and geography was summed up in the work of Ptolemy of Alexandria in the 2^nd century AD[CE].’#

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#*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:] 403-4

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