The ancient Greeks get a lot of attention for their contributions to science because
A) they were the first people known to try to explain nature with models based on reason and mathematics, without resort to the supernatural.
B) the books of every other culture were lost in the destruction of the library of Alexandria.
C) they were the first people to realize that Earth is a planet orbiting the Sun.
D) they were the only ancient culture that kept written records of their astronomical observations.
A
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