Sunday, October 3, 2010

chinese science

Chinese science
there has been more or less continuous contract between europe and china since classical greek times in spot of the distances between them and thier totally different language.
Silk road-an ancient rout linking china with rome.
Important Presons
Marco Polo-venetian traveler and author ,whose account of his travels and eperiences in china offered europeans a firsthand bview of asian lands and stimulated interest in asian trade.
Zu Chongzhi-5th century mathematicians who calculated the "pi" to sevent digit.
Liu Ju Hsieh-mathematicians descovered the "pascal's triangle"
Tao Chi'en-poet and philosopher who descover the elixir and the scince of medicine.

Four great inventions
  • magnetic compass
  • printing press
  • gun powder
  • paper making

Other invention

1.astronomy 1st planetarium made by emperor

Stellar explosion that took place in "crab nebula"
2.mathematics
  • asian abacus
  • "pi" was calculated in the seventh digit
  • decimal system
  • pascal"s triangle

3.military

  • crossbow
  • poison gases
  • bamboo made canons
  • rockets

4.medicine

  • elixir of life
  • acupuncture
  • autopsy

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