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  2. List of Greek inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    A Greek inscription, citing from the Bible, runs along one side of its arch rib. The structure is today submerged by the Keban Reservoir. [67] Political science: As a social political science, contemporary political science started to take shape in the latter half of the 19th century. At that time it began to separate itself from political ...

  3. Christianity and science - Wikipedia

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    Some of today's scholars, such as Stanley Jaki, have claimed that Christianity with its particular worldview, was a crucial factor for the emergence of modern science. [45] According to professor Noah J Efron, virtually all modern scholars and historians agree that Christianity moved many early-modern intellectuals to study nature ...

  4. Category:Greek inventions - Wikipedia

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  5. Ancient Greek technology - Wikipedia

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    Inventions that are credited to the ancient Greeks include the gear, screw, rotary mills, bronze casting techniques, water clock, water organ, the torsion catapult, the use of steam to operate some experimental machines and toys, and a chart to find prime numbers. Many of these inventions occurred late in the Greek period, often inspired by the ...

  6. List of Byzantine inventions - Wikipedia

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    Greek fire: The invention and military employment of Greek fire played a crucial role in the defense of the empire against the early onslaught of the Muslim Arabs. Brought to Constantinople by a refugee from Syria by the name of Kallinikos, [ 15 ] the incendiary weapon came just in time to save the capital from the Muslim sieges of 674–678 ...

  7. Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles - Wikipedia

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    A Professor of the New Testament Robert M. Grant says "Luke evidently regarded himself as a historian, but many questions can be raised in regard to the reliability of his history [...] His ‘statistics’ are impossible; Peter could not have addressed three thousand hearers [e.g. in Acts 2:41] without a microphone, and since the population of ...

  8. Christianity and Ancient Greek philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Christian assimilation of Hellenistic philosophy was anticipated by Philo and other Greek-speaking Alexandrian Jews. Philo's blend of Judaism, Platonism, and Stoicism strongly influenced Christian Alexandrian writers such as Origen and Clement of Alexandria , as well as in the Latin world, Ambrose of Milan .

  9. Historicity of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    [24] "History", or specifically biblical history, in this context appears to mean a definitive and finalized framework of events and actions—comfortingly familiar shared facts—like an omniscient medieval chronicle, shorn of alternative accounts, [25] psychological interpretations, [26] or literary pretensions. But prominent scholars have ...