Greece
The intellectual and scientific accomplishments of ancient Greece are seen as the greatest of antiquity. Mathematical discoveries such as geometry were its crowning achievements. Indeed, if you ask anyone who is responsible for paving the way for science in the West, you will almost invariably be told ancient Greece.
But the physics as taught by Aristotle which came out of Greece (such as regarding the motion of objects) was not only wrong, but was believed for centuries in spit…
