Chinese scientists lacked a standard of logical proof provided by Aristotelian logical and they had no system of deductive geometry. ... As a result, the Chinese were forced to employ Arabic astronomers from 13th century onwards" (Bekar,carlaw and lipsey) In Personally, despite the very well-developed state of Chinese technology, abstract mathematics was extremely weak - geometry was fragmented and ad-hoc, arithmetics was there but algebra was primitive (partly due to the failure of adopting the system of mathetical symbols and Arabic numerals). ... Western geometry and optical science bo...

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Natural philosophy, being the precursor to modern day science, was greatly developed in ancient Greece. Like other ancient societies and cultures, the Greeks believed that the world around them was the result of divine intervention (The Ionian Philosophers, 3). Therefore, they based early Greek scie...

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On David Hume and Rene Descartes "There are more things in heaven and Earth than dreamt of in your philosophy" (Shakespeare, 211). This quote from William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark presents quite an idea. It suggests that in our modern philosophy we have not even bega...

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