Development of

Science in Asia
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 Asia?
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 Home of many civilizations
 Host to many cultural, economic, scientific, and
political activities of all ages.
 Their civilizations were incomparable in terms of
their contributions to the development of knowledge
during their time
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India
 India
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 A huge peninsula surrounded by vast bodies of
water and fortified by huge mountains in its borders.
 Known for manufacturing iron and in metallurgical
works
 Their iron steel is considered to be the best and held
high regard in the whole Roman Empire
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 Famous in medicine.
 Ayurveda a system of traditional medicine in ancient
India before 2500 BC
 They discovered medicinal properties of plants that
led them to develop medicines to cure various
illnesses
 Susruta Samhita, ancient texts that describes
different surgical and other medicinal procedures
famous in ancient India
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 Astronomy
 They have developed theories on the configuration
of the universe, the spherical self-supporting earth
and the year of 360 days with 12 equal parts of 30
days each
 Mathematics
 Tried to standardize measurement of length to a
higher degree of accuracy and designed a ruler, the
Mohenjodaro ruler
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 Indian astronomer and mathematician Aryabhata, in
his Aryabhatiya introduced a number of
trigonometric functions, tables, and techniques, as
well as algorithms of algebra.
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China
 China
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 China have contributions in many areas of life like
medicine, astronomy, science, mathematics, arts,
philosophy, and music
 China have greatly influenced many of its neighbor
countries like Korea, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam,
Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar etc
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 They are known for their traditional medicines, a
product of centuries of experiences and discovery of
the Chinese people.
 They discovered various medical properties and uses
of different plants and animals to cure human illness.
 Example of this is the acupuncture.
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 4 famous contributions of China:
 Compass
 Papermaking
 Gunpowder
 Printing tools
 They also invented iron plough, wheelbarrow and
propeller.
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Middle east countries
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 Middle east countries are dominantly occupied by
Muslims.
 Muslim scientists placed greater value on science
experiments rather than plain-thought experiments
of the greek scientists
 Al-Haytham, muslim scientist, regarded as the
Father of Optics especially for his empirical proof of
the intromission theory of light.
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 Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi gave his name
to the concept of the algorithm while the term
algebra is derived from al-jabr.
 Jabir ibn Hayyan – “Father of Chemistry”
 Ibn Sina
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 pioneered the science of experimental science and
was the first physician to conduct clinical trials.
 “Book of healing” and “The canon of medicine” were
used as standard medicinal texts in both Muslim
world and in Europe during 17th century
 Discovered contagious nature of infectious disease
and the introduction of clinical pharmacology