Answer 1:
Your question is a good one, but I'm not sure I
can give you a good answer. Science is an
organized way of collecting information about the
world. Science was not "discovered" by humans but
instead developed by us as a way to learn about
our environment, our society and our place in the
world.
What we know about the first human
cultures to use science is limited to what
artifacts and writings have survived from their
times. Archeologists may be the best scientists to
answer this question, since they study past
civilizations. The Greeks are often credited
with developing the first fundamental sciences,
such as geometry, architecture, philosophy and
astronomy. We know that the Greeks got a lot of
their ideas from other cultures with which they
interacted. The ancient Greeks did not invent
these sciences but instead developed organized
ways of teaching and writing about them. This is
one reason why ancient Greek thought is still
studied today, through the writings of men such as
Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Euclid, Archimedes and
Pythagoras.
Who were the first scientists?
It areally depends on which science you're interested
in. The ancient civilizations that really stand
out are the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Chinese.
As I've mentioned before, the ancient Greeks are
often regarded as the first astronomers, although
the Egyptians and Chinese are famous for this too,
and ruins such as Stonehenge suggest cultures even
befor
The cultures best known for first developing
modern math are the Egyptians and Greeks. In my
opinion, the founders of modern biology include
the ancient Greek Aristotle ("History of Animals")
and, in the 1700's and 1800's, Carl Linnaeus and
Erasmus, and Charles Darwin. | Answer 2:
It depends what you mean by science. The
definition of it 3000 years ago was different from
our definition now. Science as we define it now was
probably first developed and practiced by the
Greek philosophers. However this may even be
contested. Indian astronomers and priest were
practicing astronomy even before the Greek
philosophers.
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