Mathematics and Medicine

Thales

• Father of Science.

• He postulated on supernatural Phenomena.

Phythagoras

• Student of Thales

• postulated that earth is spherical shape

Plato

• started the investigations of nature.

• Father of Western Philosophy

Aristotle

• student of Plato

• laid the foundations of scientific method.

• classified more than 540 animal species.

Hippocrates

• Father of medicine.

• based on observation clinical sign and rational conclusions and does not rely on religious or magical beliefs.

Euclid

• introduced the concepts of axiom

Michael Faraday

• Father of the electric motor, electric generator, electric transformer, and electrolysis.

• He wrote the “Law of Induction” and is known for the “Faraday Effect.”.

Early Middle Ages (about AD 500 to 1000)

• Norse sailors were master navigators to be used as a map in the ocean.

• monastic study kept some of the scientific processes alive. The monks of Western Europe studied medicine to cure the sick.

• Their astronomy let geometry and mathematics alive.

Johan Kepler

• three laws of planetary motion

Galileo Galilei

• Astronomer

Francis Bacon

• emphasized the importance of induction as a scientific method.

William Harvey

• Father of modern physiology

• first person to correctly describe blood’s circulation in the body.

• showed that arteries and veins form a complete circuit that starts at the heart and leads back to the heart.