To give your healthcare provider important information about the current status of your metabolism, including the health of your kidneys and liver as well as electrolyte and acid/base balance and levels of blood glucose and blood proteins; to monitor known conditions, such as hypertension, and to monitor the use of medications to check for any ...
Ancient Greeks. In 2008, researchers said a reference to a total eclipse was found in Homer's Odyssey, with the lines The sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist has overspread the world. The Ancient Greeks believed a total eclipse to be a bad omen.
The idea of the sun being the center of the solar system, known as heliocentrism, is found in several Vedic Sanskrit texts written in ancient India (9thâ8th century BC); in ancient greece by, Aristarchus of Samos (c. 270 BC); in Hellenistic Babylonia, based on Aristarchus by Seleucus of Seleucia (b. 190 BC); Medieval India, by Aryabhata (476â550); the Islamic world, by Ibn al-Haytham (c. 1000); and finally Renaissance Europe by Copernicus in 1543, which was later elaborated by ...