Essay On Greek Astronomy

Alexander The Great found Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea in the year 331 BCE. The city grew from a small port town to the most important metropolis in ancient Egypt. The library of Alexandria begun under Ptolemy I and completed by Ptolemy II and he sent invitations to scholars to contribute with books. No one knows how many books were donated but an estimation was that there up to 500,000 books in the library.
If a woman decided to become a priest, they first had to be a scribe, and to become a scribe you had to be many years studying. Female doctors were respected in Egypt, and in the medical schools in Alexandria came students from different countries to study there. Women were regularly employed as, weavers, bakers, brewers, sandal makers, basket weavers, or as a housewife. If a women’s husband died or the divorce, the women had the right to stay with the house.
During the 26th dynasty in Egypt, the ports in the Nile opened for the Greek traders and important

What we know of astronomy are references or comments from Aristotle. Pythagoras was one of the first Greek astronomer to think the earth was round. The Almagest is one of the most important works in astronomy, because it contains geometrical models linked to tables that show the movement of celestial bodies. They used knowledge from the Egyptians, Babylonian and Chaldean astronomers. When, they made a mistake they created a device to save the mistake.
By the 5 century BCE there were many attempts to identify the cause of illness instead of spiritual ones. Asclepius was considered a healer, but he was more like a doctor. Hippocrates was the most famous doctor of all Greece. Spartans had their own personnel responsible for medical care in the army. Greek doctors knew it was very important to prevent excessive blood.
Alexander had encouraged a blending of eastern and western cultures because since he married a Persian woman, he started to use Persian