Objectives:

 To discuss and understand the science of Ancient Chinese

 To comprehend the science of Ancient Greek
 Identify the persons behind the ancient science and their
contributions.
Science of Ancient Chinese
Science of Ancient Chinese
 Mathematics
• place value decimal system
• negative number

 Medicine
• Acupuncture

 Astronomy
• Five planets- Mercury,Venus,Mars,Jupiter,Saturn
• Four quarters

 Mechanics
• Compass
• Paper
• Gunpowder
• Abacus
 Science of Ancient Greek
 Astronomy
 The earth was round.
 Anaxagoras, who figured out what caused eclipses
 Aristarchus, who figured out that the earth went around the sun.

 Medicine
scientific observation and logic 
 Mathematics
geometric methods
People behind the ancient science

Greek Scientists, Mathematicians and Philosophers:

 Thales
 Archimedes
 Pythagoras
 Euclid
 Heraclitus
 Democritus
 Anaximenes
 Hippocrates
 Socrates
 Plato
 Aristotle
 Thales of Miletus
 Measure the height of the pyramid by their

o Angle of elevation
o Angle of depression

 Basic element of nature

 The Earth floats on water like a raft
 Archimedes of Syracuse
 Mathematics
 Volume of sphere is two-third the volume of a cylinder that circumscribes
the sphere
 Value of Pi (3.14159…)
 Integral calculus

 Mechanics
 Principle of lever compound pulley
 Hydraulic screw

 Physics
 Archimedes's principle/ law of buoyancy
The buoyant force on a body immersed in fluid is equal to the weight of
the fluid displace by that object.
Pythagoras

Pythagorean theorem
In right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to
the sum of the squares of the length of the legs.
In algebraic terms,  a2 + b2 = c2

Where a = opposite side

b = adjacent
c =  hypotenuse
Euclid of Alexandria
Father of Geometry
Author of ‘ELEMENTS’ (geometry)
- plane geometry
-proportional in general
-properties of numbers
-magnitude
-solid geometry

Eratosthenes of Alexandria -, a scientist of ancient

Greece, made the first accurate measurement of the
Earth's circumference using geometry.
 
 Heraclitus
 Fire- primal element/ primal matter

Hippocrates
 Father of Medicine
-Clubbing of fingers
 Democritus
 All matters are up made of Atoms; The nature is
made up of ATOMS and PARTICLE that cannot
be divided

Anaximenes
• Doctrine of air
-air was this primary substance of which
all other things are made
Plato
 Writer of treatises
-philosophical dialogues
Dialogue content:
 Philosophy
 Logic
 Ethics
 mathematics

Socrates
 Scientific Method
Aristotle

Father of Biology
proposed that all substances are composed of four elements in various
proportions.
Earth, which is cold and dry; this corresponds to the modern idea of a solid.
Water. which is cold and wet; this corresponds to the modern idea of a liquid.
Air, which is hot and wet; this corresponds to the modern idea of a gas.

Fire, which is hot and dry; this corresponds to the modern idea of heat.