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medieval sciencewe can record the sum total of the medieval achievement in the natural sciences in a few lines it can
the feudal societythe economic basis of the feudal system was land and the village was its economic unit the feudal economy was dependent on
ship-buildingthe shipbuilding industry in the seventeenth century witnessed far-reaching changes that mainly resulted from imitating european
military technologyimportant changes were introduced in military technology rope and wooden stimps for horsemen were known in india before the
paper manufacturepaper was not used in india until the eleventh century this chinese invention of the first century ad reached india mainly
technical innovations and inventionsmedieval india witnessed considerable improvement and changes in the field of technology while
medicinearistocratic patronage for physicians and surgeons was not wanting though perhaps surgeons did not enjoy a very high status in comparison
decay of arab culture and sciencethe association of science with kings wealthy merchants and nobles which was initially very fruitful
opticsthe prevalence of eye diseases in the desert and tropical countries led to the study of the eye by arab doctors surgical
scientific chemistry the arab doctors perfumers and metallurgists made their greatest contribution in chemistry this was mainly due to the
arab renaissancethe roman empire had begun to decline its economy was overburdened by a huge army stagnating production had led to the
improvement of techniques and craftsin this period there was a spurt in agriculture as new techniques and seeds were introduced more importantly
decline of european scienceby the middle of the second century bc the greek empires were collapsing in anarchy andunder the weight of the
atomic theory in antiquitythe oldest of indian philosophical systems was samkhya the system envisaged that everything except consciousness
medicine the other area in which the greek developments had a parallel in india was medicine although encouragement for this development
curing methodsthe most impbrtant curing methods were classified under five heads namely inducing vomiting giving purgative enem oily enema
diagnosis and prognosisthe diagnosis and prognosis of disease were done directly by seeing hearing smelling and touching all external human
the ayurvedic system of medicine punarvasu atreya about 6th century bc taught medicine at taxila each of his disciples such as bhela jatukarna
developments in medicineduring the early vedic period healing was thought to be the duty of the priests diseases were seen as the results of
zoologythe domestication of animals like horses and elephants and their use in warfare necessitated the study of their anatomy and physiology
botanyin the bronze and the iron ages agriculture became the principal mode of production of man in all lands it is thus not surprising that in
emergence of sciencewe gave you a glimpse of the social structure in india during the iron age with the emergence of ordered urban
emergence of urban societies the writings of this period also give us a picture of the social conditions the social structure was
iron agewe briefly surveyed the ideas and techniques of the early human beings and traced the roots of science in the primitive
decline of the bronze age civilisationwe find that the great developments in production methods that came with the rise of early cities lasted