In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Here we see the word "brain" occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“With the consolidation under Menes it was already an institution of great age, and over four centuries of development which then followed, had at the dawn of the Old Kingdom already brought to the office a prestige and an exalted power, demanding the deepest reverence of the subject whether high or low. Indeed the king was now officially a god,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“Keb and Nut were the father and mother of the four divinities, Osiris and Isis, Set and Nephthys; together they formed with their primeval father the sun-god, a circle of nine deities, the “ennead” of which each temple later possessed a local form. This correlation of the primitive divinities as father, mother and son, strongly influenced the theology of later… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share
“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
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