EGYPTIAN TRADITION
The science is a social institution. He has
his own method of science. But we have to look at the origins
of science to understand the need. From lifestyles, trades
And customs of our ancestors, we learn what science was like
in ancient times. So scientific practices in the ancient and
medieval times are to be collected from the social and cultural
life of the time.
The history of human civilization is unthinkable without
the contributions of Egypt. But the Egyptians have lost their
dynamism that mankind has entered the Iron Age. The civilization
has become stagnant and eventually disintegrated. The Egyptian
companies continue to survive even after 1000 BC But, without
having the entire force and cultural vitality in them, they
ceased to occupy a place in the respectable civilization card.
It is ironic that the Egyptians who sets the tone in preschoolers
iron civilization dwindled when the Iron Age began. But Egyptians
made significant contributions, and you will learn about them
in the following paragraphs. Egyptians excelled at an architectural
achievement as evidenced by the pyramids. They had indisputable
and remarkable knowledge of chemicals and treatment. The invention
of papyrus itself has been a time of achievement. It is even
said that the word chemistry comes from the word 'chemistry'.
That means "black mud" in the language of Egypt.
Thus, Egypt is to be regarded as the mother of chemistry.
It has also to his credit achievements in carpentry and wood
working. They had an irrigation system that could be regarded
as a triumph of engineering and technology.
Astronomy
The Egyptians have developed a very specific timetable by dividing
the year 365.2422 days. This would be possible if there had
been constant and careful observations of the sun and stars.
The Egyptian priests prepared when 2700 BC A solar calendar,
which continues to be used for centuries to come. Obviously,
they established using empirical methods, the relationship between
"Zodiac" this year containing 365 ¼ days and
years approximate containing 365 or 366 days. The calculations
appear to have been based on observations from the date of occurrence
of floods in the river Nile and the intervals between dawn rising
sirus and the passage of the sun through the ecliptic etc. One
astronomer called Cidenas had calculated the Du movements sun
and the moon. Mathematics
The scholar said that Greek Herodotus arrival at the geometry
of Greeks from Egypt. Obviously, the Egyptians are bounded
on the practical side of mathematics and did not take its
theoretical interest. They knew that the properties of triangles
plan and numbers. They managed to solve math problems with
two strangers who have served their practical needs. They
discussed the Pythagorean Theorem and in its practical application.
Long before 1100 BC An Egyptian mathematician by the name
Ahmas wrote a book describing the nature and properties of
attractions. This work was recently introduced by Henry Rindh
in England and is now available in the British Museum.
Medicine
The Egyptian medical and pharmacological was also extraordinary.
They used all kinds of substances (animal, vegetable and mineral)
for medical purposes. They used the same horns scrapings and
tortoise shells in the preparation of drugs outside parts of
the skin, bones and hawks limestone and earth. They invented
special containers to preserve medicines. They used sensitive
balances and weights for weighing ingredients for medicines.
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