[MonroeDNA]

Were the Greeks Christians?

Seems to me there is a big time gap between Archemides, Pythagoris, Socrates, Plato, and Newton.

Dark ages, perhaps?

[A. Pole]

Seems to me there is a big time gap between Archemides[sic], Pythagoris[sic], Socrates, Plato, and Newton. Dark ages, perhaps?

Yes. During the so called Dark or rather Middle Ages the system of modern science was worked out. That is why Copernicus, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein and Heisenberg are quite different from Tales, Archimedes and Pythagoras.