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1. Hipparchus, perhaps the greatest astronomer of the ancient world, also first developed which mathematical discipline?
2. The herbalist Crateuas and Apollonius of Citium made what contribution to the scientific world?
3. The first recorded steam engine was described in a work by which Alexandrian scientist of the 1st century AD?
4. Which Alexandrian scientist predicted that the sun, in certain circumstances, might be visible even after it had dipped below the horizon?
5. Rufus of Ephesus, a medical writer of the 1st century AD, was the first to identify and describe which important part of the eye?
6. One of the last of the ancient Greek mathematicians, which fellow wrote the
'Arithmetica', a work that contained the first systematic use of signs and symbols in algebraic problems?
7. Hypatia is the only female mathematician of antiquity known to us. Not only was she a professor of philosophy at Alexandria, succeeding her father, but also an experienced and adept writer on the subject of algebra. Who was her father, the person she replaced as professor at the university in Alexandria?
8. What was the great mathematical and astronomical work of the ancient Egyptian scientist Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) called?
9. Ptolemy described a number of different astronomical instruments within his Almagest. Which of these instruments was used to measure the position of the moon?
10. Galen, a scholar of Pergamum during the 2nd century AD, provided a synthesis of the biological and medical sciences that remained the basis for Western medicine for nearly 1500 years. One of the cornerstones of his theories regarding the human body was his belief in bodily humors. Which of these was not one of the four basic humors according to Galen?
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