Greeks

• Greek - Known as the birthplace of western philosophy
• Transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
• Ancient greeks - invented the alarm clock used large complicated mechanisms to time the alarm. They made use of water (or sometimes small stones or sand). That dropped into drums which sounded the alarm.
• Watermills - were also considered as one of the most important contributions of the Greek civilization to the world.
• Watermills - commonly used in agricultural processes like milling of grains which was a necessary form of food processing.
• Galen - made the first steps for the advancement of the science of anatomy
• Aristotle - importance of critical observation and systematic means to identify and classify organism
• He also invented the science of hydrostatics - Archimedes
• Ptolemy - wrote the Almagest; postulated the geocentric theory of the universe.