Beginning with the Hellenistic period, the natural sciences gradually broke away from philosophy. Astronomy, as well as the mathematics and mechanics associated with it at this time, became the object of precise and systematic research (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga. Diophantus of Alexandria...
is located near the present-day town of Argos. Some archaeologists trace the origins of this phenomenal structure to the 4th century BCE, namely during the Hellenistic period. However, some scholars propose that its historical roots