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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

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Chinese Science
There has been more or less continuous contract between europe and china since classical greek times in spot of the distances between them and thier totally different language.
Silk road-an ancient rout linking china with rome.
Important Presons
Marco Polo-venetian traveler and author ,whose account of his travels and eperiences in china offered europeans a firsthand bview of asian lands and stimulated interest in asian trade.
Zu Chongzhi-5th century mathematicians who calculated the "pi" to sevent digit.
Liu Ju Hsieh-mathematicians descovered the "pascal's triangle"
Tao Chi'en-poet and philosopher who descover the elixir and the scince of medicine.

Four great inventions

magnetic compass
printing press
gun powder
paper making
Other invention

1.astronomy 1st planetarium made by emperor


Stellar explosion that took place in "crab nebula"

2.mathematics
asian abacus
"pi" was calculated in the seventh digit
decimal system
pascal"s triangle
3.military

crossbow

poison gases
bamboo made canons
rockets
4.medicine

elixir of life

acupuncture
autopsy


Science In the Latin West During Medieval Age 
Early Medieval Age
  • Migration or Barbarian Invasion
  • Deurbanization
  • Study of nature was pursued move for practical reason than an abstract inquiry
  • Educational Reform ( Charles The Great
7 Liberal Arts

Trivium (literary education)
1. rhetoric
2. grammar
3. dialectic

Quadrium (scientific education)
4. arithmetic
5. geometry
6. music
7. astronomy

High Medieval Age
  • Birth of medieval Universities
  • Latin translation of the main works of ancient philosophers and thinkers
  • Grosseteste (oxford franciscan School)
  • Aristotle dual path of reasoning (resolution and comparison)
Late Medieval Age
  • William of Occam ( principle of parsimony)
  • Jean Buridan ( most brilliant art master of MA ), theory of Impetus
  • Thomas Broadwardine ( Instantaneous Velocity , Mean speed theorem, distinguished the dynamics to kinematics)
  • Nicole Oresme ( optics , Polished Heliocentric Theory)
  • Black Death –( mid-14th Century)
  • Catholic Church Disintegration (Papacy)
·         Science During Rennaissance
Establishment of Academies
The Academia Dei Lincei in Rome
The Academia Del Cimiento in Florence
The Royal Society in London
The Academic Des Sciences In Paris
·         Book and Journals

Jounal De Savants of Paris

ACta Eruditorum of Liepzig
·         Great Treatises

Principia Mathematica of Sir Isaac Newton

Traite De la lumiere of Huygens
·         Remarkable Scientist

Johann Gutenberg -invention of printing press

German Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa- Latin exponent of value of expriment
Nicholas Capernicus-developed the heliocentric theory using scientic method
Leonardo De Vinci -greatest artist of his time
Andres Versalius-modern human technology
The New Status of Greek Science

Simon Stevenious- introduced the decimal fraction

Galileo Galilei- made the telescope
Johannes Kepler-theorized the movement of the planet
Rene Descartes-inventor of graph and believed in God existence
Paracelsus-alchemist and physician of renaissance
Francis Bacon- improvised the scientific method
Sir Isaac Newton-discovered the gravity

European Science
      Owes its past success and its special characteristics to it sharing, in metaphysics and method,
Basic features of European society where aggressive, individualism tempered by principle of cooperation for a common good.
Industrial Revolution
An Industrial revolution  began that transform Europe from Agrarian to Urban Society toward the end of the 18th Century.



Science In the 19th Century
Science in the 19 th century appears as a golden age,science expanded succesfully into new fields of inquiry ,including a combination of mathematics and experiment of physics,the application of theory of experiment in chemistry,and controlled experimentation in biology.
Science and Technology in Mid- 19th Century. There are important breakthrough  in:

iron and steel technology
electricity
weapons- machine gun ,bottle wagon,dynamite
physics and chemistry
siology,psychology and biology
Dalton- an English schoolmaster, atoms were the smallest indestructible parts of matter.

Mendeleev- developed the table of elements which helped in the discovery of new elements.

26th December 1948 – Pierre and Marie Curie announce the discovery of the element “RADIUM”
Psychology-Sigmund Freud look for  explanation for individual  human behavior beyond the rational level.

Charles Darwin-developed his  theory of evolution.

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