The interval from the overdue fourth to the overdue moment century B. C. witnessed, in Greek-speaking international locations, an explosion of goal wisdom concerning the exterior international. WhileGreek tradition had reached nice heights in artwork, literature and philosophyalreadyin the sooner classical period, it's within the so-called Hellenistic interval that we see for the ?rst time — wherever on the earth — the looks of technological know-how as we comprehend it now: no longer an accumulation of proof or philosophically established speculations, yet an or- nized attempt to version nature and observe such types, or scienti?ctheories in a feeling we'll make special, to the answer of sensible difficulties and to a transforming into realizing of nature. We owe this new method of scientists comparable to Archimedes, Euclid, Eratosthenes and so forth much less typical todaybut no much less notable. but, now not lengthy after this golden interval, a lot of this remarkable dev- opment have been reversed. Rome borrowed what it used to be able to from the Greeks and stored it for a short while but, yet created little or no technology of its personal. Europe was once quickly smothered in theobscurantism and stasis that blocked so much avenues of highbrow improvement for 1000 years — until eventually, as is widely known, the rediscovery of historical tradition in its fullness lead the way to the trendy age.