Talk:Science in the ancient world

message: I think it would be better to merge the two sections on Greek science and greco-roman science, because the information provided largely overlap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.185.178.31 (talk) 16:35, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
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message: The recently added discussion of Egyptian medicine (especially the third paragraph beginning with the discussion of "sewage pharmacology" to the end of the paragraph) relies on a number of tertiary sources of dubious quality.  The beginning (and older) part of the paragraph seems to be based on sounder and more balanced sources. --SteveMcCluskey 00:00, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: My understanding is that enough of the dead languages in south and central American culture have been cracked as to allow a better understanding of their level of science? I have no data but perhaps this article could benefit from another section. 87.68.244.139 (talk) 10:32, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  South and Central America? 

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message: Who says that "early cultures" encompasses everything that predates the Islamic world and its contributions to science? What sources refer to this span of cultures and eras in this way? This seems like a very odd use of "early cultures", which I would ordinarily assume refers to prehistoric and protohistoric cultures, not classical and early medieval cultures. Why not "ancient world" or "antiquity"?
Looking at the earliest revisions of this article, it seems that article did at one point cover prehistoric and protohistoric cultures, but also extended to classical civilisations. It covered a broader range of cultures, including indigenous American cultures. I suspect the term "early cultures" is the original invention of the author, and was their effort to come up with a term that could lump all these topics together.
Given the article no longer makes an effort to cover prehistoric culture and only has limited coverage of protohistoric cultures, perhaps it would be best to move the article to History of science in antiquity, or perhaps simply Science in antiquity (like Science in classical antiquity, although broader in scope than that article, encompassing the pre-classical ancient world and late antiquity, as this article already does).
I'm not sure who came up with the lead sentence, "", but it definitely needs a rewrite to clarify the scope of the article and remove the unclear use of "early cultures"; even simply changing "early cultures" to "antiquity" would make it much better. It would probably also be a good idea to go over the rest of the article to check for original research and essay-like writing. "Islamic science" section in particular ends with a "Conclusion" which is essay-like and not appropriate for an encylcopedia article. Additionally, the "China and the Far East" section seems to cover post-classical history, exceeding the scope set by "to Islamic science". Off-topic material like this should be moved to another article if it's not already covered elsewhere. – Scyrme (talk) 17:52, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Scyrme I've remedied that, fortunately, by removing the off-topic Islamic section (as their Ancient Near Eastern predecessors in Persia, Mesopotamia, the Levant and North Africa are already covered anyway) and totally rewriting the section on China and East Asia. I've also added a sorely needed section on Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, both here and in the History of science article (where it is slightly smaller and worded and arranged somewhat differently than here). Overall this article needs tons of work, but the main focus should be on the main "history of science" article, which has a huge daily readership compared to this one. Pericles of AthensTalk 16:24, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Early cultures"? + Original research and essay-like writing 

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