BRIEF HISTORY OF SCIENCE (original) (raw)

This Chapter serves as handy, reliable and comprehensive guide for students to grapple with the problems of the historical development of science. It will help the reader comprehend easily the course of scientific development beginning from the ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, through the ancient Greek philosophers/scientists, down to the present century. This historical analysis is very timely because it serves to erase the erroneous impression that the Greeks and the Western world were the originators of philosophy and science. The truths of African origin of these disciplines are re-established here. We warmly recommend that this chapter be carefully studied with interest.