TIME LINE

HISTORY OF SCIENCE/MEDICINE

EAST MEETS WEST

Dr. Henry Jakubowski

Department of Chemistry
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
St. Joseph/Collegeville, Minnesota

I have compiled the timeline from a wide variety of sources. It includes many, but not all, of the important events and personalities that have been acknowledged by others to have had significant roles in shaping history. The names and events that appear in colored fonts on this timeline are linked to web pages that I have created: Click on those names and events to get information on the person or event.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE TIMELINE

The documents to which the links go can be reached directly by selecting from the following documents:

• History of Western Science
  • A brief review of the Middle Ages from the Encyclopedia Brittanica Online (avail. at CSB/SJU)
  • Scientific Method Diagram:   Induction/Deduction
  • Analogy in Ben Franklins Natural Philosophy
  • Thomas Kuhn on the Web
  • Karl Popper on the Web
  • Real Audio Discussion of Thomas Kuhn from NPR Science Friday
  • Talk of Cannibalism by Jared Diamond
  • Relativity on the Web
  • New:  Islam and Science
• History of Western Medicine
  • Nerves and Animal Spirits 
  • Modern View of Blood Flow in Heart
  • Animated View of Blood Flow in Heart - requires Macromedia Flash 3.0 Plugin
  • Spirits, Mind and Body - Galen's View
  • History of the Body
  • Sickle Cell Hemoglobin
  • Gleevec and Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
  • SCID: Bubble Boy
    • Cure - BBC
    • Side Effect: Cancer - BBC
     
• History of Eastern (Chinese) Science
  • Newton in Japan:  Translation and Culture
  • Oldest playable musical instruments found at Jiahu early Neolithic site in China
  • Heaven in Confucian and Taoists philosophies
  • The Golden Elixir:  Web Site on Chinese Alchemy
  • Western Language Studies of Chinese Alchemy
  • Questionnaire:  Presentation
• History of Eastern (Chinese) Medicine
  • History of TCM - web links from the Karolinska Institute
  • Reinventing an Ancient Cure for Malaria
  • FAQ - Dialectics, Materialism, and Dialectical Materialism

The journal Science is publishing a series of articles this year describing historical advances in science and technology.  The can be found below:

• Endless Pathways of Discovery.   Volume 287, Number 5451 Issue of 14 Jan 2000, p 229
• Deconstructing the "Science Wars" by Reconstructing an Old Mold, by Stephen Jay Gould. Volume 287, Number 5451 Issue of 14 Jan 2000, pp. 253 - 261
• Planetary Science:  A Space Odyessy by David Stephenson.  Volume 287, Number 5455 Issue of 11 Feb 2000, pp. 997 - 100
• Journey to the Center of Biology by Eric S. Lander and Robert A. Weinberg. Volume 287, Number 5459 Issue of 10 Mar 2000, pp. 1777 - 1782
• Infectious History by Joshua Lederberg.  Volume 288, Number 5464 Issue of 14 Apr 2000, pp. 287 - 293
• Designing a New Material World by Gregory Olson.  Volume 288, Number 5468 Issue of 12 May 2000, pp. 993 - 998
• Cloning: Pathways to a Pluripotent Future by Anne McLaren.  Volume 288, Number 5472, Issue of 9 Jun 2000, pp. 1775-1780.
• The Quickening of Science Communication by Robert Lucky.  Volume 289, Number 5477, Issue of 14 Jul 2000, pp. 259-264
• One Hundred Years of Quantum Physics by Daniel Kleppner and Roman Jackiw.  Volume 289, Number 5481, Issue of 11 Aug 2000, pp. 893-898.
• The Incredible Life and Times of Biological Cells by Paul Nurse.  Volume 289, Number 5485, Issue of 8 Sep 2000, pp. 1711-1716.
• Neuroscience: Breaking Down Scientific Barriers to the Study of Brain and Mind by Eric R. Kandel and Larry R. Squire.   Volume 290, Number 5494, Issue of 10 Nov 2000, pp. 1113-1120. Copyright � 2000 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science.

 LAST UPDATED 02/17/2008