Calculating the next solar eclipse the Greek way

[nojh]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk&feature=player_embedded

The video would have you be astonished that we did this using Legos, because everybody knows that Legos are just a

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[sithwitch13]

Fun fact about the Romans and medicine: they held doctors in very low regard. Since it was mostly a Greek art, and mostly practiced by slaves, and (at least circa the late Republic era) could be practiced by anyone who took a four month crash course, practitioners were seen as a shady bunch. I think Galen made it slightly more reputable in the second century, but offerings to Aesclepius were the preferred way to go for healing.

If you want actual beacons of awesome medical stuff during that time, it was mostly the Greeks (and later the Arabs) who did it all.

(ETA: I hate phone typing.)