Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1885 — Science Births. [ARTICLE]

Science Births.

Astronomy, the oldest of the sciences, is said to have originated at Babylon in observations made about 2234 B. C.; it was much advanced in Chalda?a Under Nabonassar; and it was known to the Chinese about 1100 B. C., if not many centuries before. Geology, the science of the earth, is claimed to. have been cultivated in China long before the Christian era, and it occupied the attention of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Tliny, Avicenna and the Arabian writent.,, The Egyptians and Chinese claims. an early acquaintance with chemistry, whose first facts were revealed by the experiments es the alchemists, but it did not become a science until the seventeenth century. Botany and zoology were founded by Aristotle, about 350 B. O.