We begin in China. Here a sense of the Pacific Ocean an Himalayas stimulates a deep response in all practice. From the beginning we are immersed in unfathomable turbulence. All the way we are embedded in the material world. Progress here is with everything fully real.
Earliest Development of Physical Science in China
Directly beneath the Himalayas things are different. An immediate heightened awareness directs actions. To proceed here all these factors come into endeavour. Materials here have the added quality of immensity. To be effective here humans operate with all scales of skilful handling.
Earliest Development of the Physical Science of Mass and Motion of the Indian Hindu Civilisation
In the near Middle East rivers flow from huge mountain ranges. Canal irrigation in Mesopotamia makes agriculture possible. With this protective buildings develop as cities. In ancient Egypt too careful direction of the Nile makes possible movement of materials for pyramids and temples. In all of this rock blocks are raised in alignment with stars.
How River Canal Irrigation and Monumental Building of Ancient Near Middle Eastern Civilisations Contribute to the Physical Science of Mass and Motion
In the European Renaissance Galileo experiments with pendulums and inclined planes. Essentially he finds that acceleration to the earth is really energy change. For Newton this combines with the observations of Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. Masses and motions are expressed as energy changes in a practical mathematical synthesis. It is now possible to access all dynamic interchanges through the operations of universal gravitation.
How Galileo’s Experiments and Newton’s Practical Mathematical Synthesis Initiate the Physical Science of Masses and Motions
