>>13117032The ancient Greeks knew fuck all about physics and had no calculus. There was no concept of basing your reasoning on experimental results. They believed you could obtain knowledge by pure reasoning and never bothered to check (in some cases they did not have the technology to check, but in many they did) if their reasoning matched nature. As a result their writings on optics and mechanics are pretty much a mad circle jerk with little basis in reality.
They used trigonometry and general geometry for measuring land, measuring distances, astronomy, constructing buildings. Later it was used for making plans for pretty much everything you can imagine from ships to musical instruments.
Calculus was not in widespread use before the 1800s, very few people knew calculus and much of the development in calculus and calculus based physics happened between the late parts of the 1700s and the middle of the 1800s.
