According to a book written by Piero Scaruffi (2011), titled “History of Knowledge”, basically knowledge begins when the earliest civilizations appear in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India and China, they are largely restrained by their natural environment and the climate. Religion, Science and the Arts is largely determined by additional factors-human, such as the seasons and flooding. Throughout centuries, humans have succeeded in changing the equation in their favor, reducing the impact of natural events on their civilization and enhance the effect of their civilization in nature for better and for worse. How this happened is pretty much the history of knowledge. Knowledge first of all has been a tool to be the “subject” changes, compared with the
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What is meant by our lives? What happened when we die? Is it possible that we live forever in form of other? The afterlife and immortality is not knowledge, because we did not "know" them again, but humans use knowledge to reached a different conclusion on this theme. The other great theme of knowledge was (and still is) the universe: what is the structure of the world we live in? Either India or Greek the philosophers can give a reliable answer. They could only speculate. However, Hellenistic age nurtures progress in mathematics (Euclidean "geometry" and Diophantus "Arithmetic") and science (Erarosthenes' calculation of the circumference of Earth, 'laws mechanic and hydrostatic, Aristarchus' heliocentric theory of Archimedes, Ptolemy's geocentric theory). The Romans' main contribution to the history of knowledge may well be engineering, which after all, is but the practical application of science to daily life. The Romans, ever practical people, made a makes a quantum leap in construction, it from the watercourse to the public bath, from villa to amphitheaters. At the same time, they also created a new level of consolidation,the consolidation of the Mediterranean world. Advancements in science was like revolution as a progress in the arts. Tycho Brahe, who discovered a new star, and Johannes Kepler, who discovered laws of planetary motion, Francis Bacon, who organized the objective the empirical of knowledge based on observations and inductive
What is meant by our lives? What happened when we die? Is it possible that we live forever in form of other? The afterlife and immortality is not knowledge, because we did not "know" them again, but humans use knowledge to reached a different conclusion on this theme. The other great theme of knowledge was (and still is) the universe: what is the structure of the world we live in? Either India or Greek the philosophers can give a reliable answer. They could only speculate. However, Hellenistic age nurtures progress in mathematics (Euclidean "geometry" and Diophantus "Arithmetic") and science (Erarosthenes' calculation of the circumference of Earth, 'laws mechanic and hydrostatic, Aristarchus' heliocentric theory of Archimedes, Ptolemy's geocentric theory). The Romans' main contribution to the history of knowledge may well be engineering, which after all, is but the practical application of science to daily life. The Romans, ever practical people, made a makes a quantum leap in construction, it from the watercourse to the public bath, from villa to amphitheaters. At the same time, they also created a new level of consolidation,the consolidation of the Mediterranean world. Advancements in science was like revolution as a progress in the arts. Tycho Brahe, who discovered a new star, and Johannes Kepler, who discovered laws of planetary motion, Francis Bacon, who organized the objective the empirical of knowledge based on observations and inductive