April 20th, 2008 at 1:22 pm (Ancient Science)
Ancient Science
While we are studying the Modern Science, would be wise to pay respect to the ancient Science, as it is the pre-genitor of the modern one.
We are going back in time that a scientist used to be something between a Philosopher and a mathematician, astronomer, mystic and many more. Back then science would come thru inspiration, observation and deep thinking. They would make many hypothetical assumptions and get lucky some times. Definitely they were great skepticists, and they had what I would call visionary minds.
In order to understand what existence is and the laws that govern our lives, in order to organize us into a functioning system, in order to evolve and protect ourselves from the mercy of the old gods, in order to measure the stars and the earth, we needed to look into philosophy and into the world itself.
Tribe by tribe and race by race we copy and share our knowledge with each other, we borrowed and exchange information for our quest to understanding.
There have been many mistakes and many misunderstandings that have been corrected again and again all the way along history. Is the earth flat? No is not flat but is the centre of the cosmos. No, is not, the sun is the centre of the universe. Oh then the sun must be the centre of our galaxy? No is not, apparently a super-massive black-hole happen to be the centre of each known galaxy. Is our galaxy the centre of the world? No… wrong again, we are just one of the many galaxies and we haven’t found the so called centre of the universe..
Still some ancient civilizations seem to know much more than they could measure with the basic tools that they had knowledge of. All we can conclude is that we lost a lot of information thru out time. Information been destroyed or lost, or still hidden waiting to be discovered.
So let’s look closer into this scientific evolution. There are a few but very important subjects that we need to take into account.
Alphabet
Geometry
Mathematics
Astronomy
Philosophy
Architecture
Art
Space reserved as will be adding a few chronological diagrams and even more subjects.