Needless to say, there is no critique of the Miller-Urey experiment nor evaluation of its claims; and there is no presentation here of all sides of the evidence as required by Texas's science curriculum standards.
So Pytheas, the mathematician of Marseilles, started off on his northern trip. Unfortunately, his diary and book called The Circuit of the Earth have perished, and our story of geographical discovery is the poorer. But these facts have survived.
Born on the island of Kos Dodecanese in around 460 BC, Hippocrates was the son and grandson of physicians, who practiced medicine in the local Asclepieion, the famous healing centre dedicated to god Asclepius.