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Brain surgery is perhaps the oldest of the practiced medical arts.
Brain surgery is perhaps the oldest of the practiced medical arts.
Astronomiae Historia contains currently more than 400 files (Web pages), which would give several thousand pages on paper when printed out. A list of nearly all files is given in the Site map. There are documents with own information, many link pages, and some Tables of Contents. To distinguish between internal and external documents, please note the URL (address) of the document as shown by your browser: All internal documents contain the string /~pbrosche/ in the URL.
In February 1996 Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua went on line. In designing the site, I hoped to produce a reliable source for peer-reviewed information about the medicine and medical thought of the Greeks and Romans from Mycenaean times to the fall of the Roman Empire. By early 2003 the site had grown, won over a dozen awards, and become one of the Internet's major resources in its field
THALES, FOUNDER OF GREEK GEOMETRY (585 B.C.E.)
The birth of Greek astronomy has been attributed to Thales of Miletus. Thales brought from Egypt a number of fundamental geometric principles. Thales, an Ionian (western border of Asia Minor) who was active near the start of the sixth century bc has been credited with a number of geometric theorems. 1. A Circle is bisected by its diameter. 2. Angles at the base of any isosceles triangle are equal. 3. If two straight lines intersect the opposite angles formed are equal. 4. If two triangles have two angles and one side respectively equal, the triangles are equal in all respects. Thales was also well known for forecasting the solar eclipse, so he was also considered a scientist.
This is timeline of mathematics through the ages
The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections
The Moody Medical Library houses the largest and the most significant collection in the history of the biomedical sciences in the southern United States. The historical holdings, which amount to over 30,000 print titles, constitute an important resource not only for The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston but also for the state and region.
Although certainly not the first trigonometric table, Ptolemy's On the Size of Chords Inscribed in a Circle (2nd Century AD) is by far the most famous. Based largely on an earlier work by Hipparchus (ca. 140 BC) it was included in Ptolemy's definitive Syntaxis Mathematica, better known by its Arabic name Almagest. In this paper I will describe the geometric theorems used in the construction of this table and attempt to relate them to their contemporary trigonometric counterparts.
In 1822 Gideon Mantell, a doctor from Lewes, East Sussex, described a fossil tooth which his wife had found by the side of the road in Cuckfield, West Sussex. This tooth was the first dinosaur fossil in the world ever to be found and identified. For the very first time people realised creatures as large as dinosaurs had once existed
The University of Oslo, Paleontological Museum contains the largest collection of fossils in Norway and functions as a National Museum. Dedicated work with organising a special type collection started in the 1920s and today specimens are housed in a special locked room and carefully arranged in a series of metal cupboards according to date of publication. At present there are well over 19.000 catalogued specimens of which almost 3.000 are type and figured specimens found in 960 publications dating from 1833 to the present. All relevant publications and specimens are recorded in the museum data base and will be available on the www in the near future. In English and Norwegian.