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History Of Sciences. Science evolved from a period of no knowledge through the curiosity of the natural people. People began to wonder and become aware.

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1 History Of Sciences

2 Science evolved from a period of no knowledge through the curiosity of the natural people. People began to wonder and become aware of the nature around them. People began to explain and classify the world around them. They would try to give an explanation about a phenomenon that fascinates them. One of the things that have fascinated these people for a long time is the night sky

3 The Arabs are among the first people to develop a firm understanding of the sky. Since they travel a lot and are living in the desert region where the night skies are clear, they rely on the stars for navigation. Furthermore, the Arabs being Muslims have a requirement to pray five times a day facing the holy city of Mecca and need to know which direction they had to pray to. Here a good knowledge on the stars makes this useful. Hence, there is a greater need for them to develop their knowledge on the stars. Its not surprising that Arabs are the pioneers of astronomy today. They had named stars and constructed efficient techniques of that are still employed today. Stars today retained are still retaining their Arabic names.

4 The Greeks referred the sky as the celestial sphere and believed that it is the heavens where their gods reside. They had named the planets after their gods. The Greek philosopher, Ptolemy, described the earth as the centre of the universe while the sun and the moon and the entire celestial sphere rotated around the earth. However Copernicus proved him wrong. As techniques improved, with the development of telescopes and better understanding of the world, astronomy further developed into the era where physics was born.

5 Isaac Newton, the father of classical physics came up with the law of forces and his universal law of gravitation; by trying to relate the forces he observed acting on the moon and the forces on earth. He believed that the same force pulling an apple to the ground is also the same force that keeps the moon in orbit around earth. For once, an expression was written down for a fundamental force that dominates the entire of the cosmos, the first breakthrough in science. After he formulated his universal law of gravitation, he and collaborate with Kepler who had already an equation that could predict the orbits of planets and further confirmed his theory. Isaac Newton not only contributed to science.His contribution to mathematics, calculus, helps power the minds the next generation of scientist to make more the world more comprehensive. He was also an idol, for many scientists after him. Isaac Newton, the father of classical physics came up with the law of forces and his universal law of gravitation; by trying to relate the forces he observed acting on the moon and the forces on earth. He believed that the same force pulling an apple to the ground is also the same force that keeps the moon in orbit around earth. For once, an expression was written down for a fundamental force that dominates the entire of the cosmos, the first breakthrough in science. After he formulated his universal law of gravitation, he and collaborate with Kepler who had already an equation that could predict the orbits of planets and further confirmed his theory. Isaac Newton not only contributed to science. His contribution to mathematics, calculus, helps power the minds the next generation of scientist to make more the world more comprehensive. He was also an idol, for many scientists after him.

6 From this point on, science started progressing. More discoveries were made. Daniel Bernoulli who idolized Newton when he was a kid and studied calculus from reading his paper, discovered a very important equation, the hydrodynamic equation. It describes how fluids behave and plays important roles engineering and sciences later on and even till today. Leonhard Euler, succeeded Bernoulli next, contributed largely to mathematics. Mathematics became a tool, a language for scientist to communicate and do their work.

7 From where it began, science initially came about to us as a matter of need. Later on out of curiosity we made more progress. We asked questions looked for answer, to satisfy the curiosity that god had given to us. IQRA. We read to find out more. We analyze and we question. We make used of our intelligence to ponder about the world we live in. Humans are born in this world to question and to seek answers. We often start with small simple questions and once we get their answers, we move on to find bigger questions and bigger answer. The biggest questions finally end up about questions of our existence. Who we are? Why are we here? What are we? How we came about? Who created us? Is there a god? These are the questions that relate us to our environment and ultimately, god. There can be no denial that a question about god is the final one. We can progress in many ways though science, and can be deceived about the purpose of science in our modern world. But it is in fact the question about god that ends it all, after all we are beings created by him. Believe in a god or not, let science tell us the answer.


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