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scientific chemistry the arab doctors perfumers and metallurgists made their greatest contribution in chemistry this was mainly due to the
arab renaissancethe roman empire had begun to decline its economy was overburdened by a huge army stagnating production had led to the
improvement of techniques and craftsin this period there was a spurt in agriculture as new techniques and seeds were introduced more importantly
decline of european scienceby the middle of the second century bc the greek empires were collapsing in anarchy andunder the weight of the
atomic theory in antiquitythe oldest of indian philosophical systems was samkhya the system envisaged that everything except consciousness
medicine the other area in which the greek developments had a parallel in india was medicine although encouragement for this development
curing methodsthe most impbrtant curing methods were classified under five heads namely inducing vomiting giving purgative enem oily enema
diagnosis and prognosisthe diagnosis and prognosis of disease were done directly by seeing hearing smelling and touching all external human
the ayurvedic system of medicine punarvasu atreya about 6th century bc taught medicine at taxila each of his disciples such as bhela jatukarna
developments in medicineduring the early vedic period healing was thought to be the duty of the priests diseases were seen as the results of
zoologythe domestication of animals like horses and elephants and their use in warfare necessitated the study of their anatomy and physiology
botanyin the bronze and the iron ages agriculture became the principal mode of production of man in all lands it is thus not surprising that in
emergence of sciencewe gave you a glimpse of the social structure in india during the iron age with the emergence of ordered urban
emergence of urban societies the writings of this period also give us a picture of the social conditions the social structure was
iron agewe briefly surveyed the ideas and techniques of the early human beings and traced the roots of science in the primitive
decline of the bronze age civilisationwe find that the great developments in production methods that came with the rise of early cities lasted
agriculture on a large scalecrops had to be planted and harvested in the right season floods were a recurrent phenomenon
changes in social organisationwe find that the above trend in social organisation led to a tendency which eventually stifled the progress
the origin of agriculture and civilisation there is no historical evidence to tell us exactly how agriculture arose we can only imagine what
ritualsthe social life of the earliest human groups or tribes revolved around food gathering to begin with they must have collected anything
social basis of primitive lifein the previous section we gave you a glimpse of how the primitive human beings faced the problems of day to day
fire and cookery fire and cookery where and when fiie came to be used is not known fire to start with must have been a frightening thing
food gathering and hunting food gathering and hunting in order to live man needed to eat and to protect himself from the weather and animals
science in the ancient worldwe have explained why we should study the history of science and what we mean by the history of science we have seen
science as a human endeavourscience is a human endeavour human beings from prehistoric times attempted to control nature for their own welfare for