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Fjordman: The History of Medicine and the History of the Calendar

fjordman has two new essays, and below are some excerpts. first, at europe news, a telling of medicine, part 5:the canning of food was invented in the early 1800s by a french confectioner named nicolas appert (1749-1841). he placed food in champagne bottles, corked them loosely, immersed them in boiling wastefully and hammered the corks tricky. this practice preserved the eats for extended periods, but neither he nor his emulators who later perfected the security of food in tin-plated canisters knew why this technique worked; it’s a textbook proves of an applied technology without any theoretical basis. louis pasteur knew of appert’s accomplish, but his scientific methods and careful experiments succeeded in convincing profuse skeptics. the optimal temperatures to go to the preservation of heterogeneous foods with token devastation to flavor were worked out by two scientists at the massachusetts pioneer of technology (mit) in the usa, samuel prescott (1872?1962) and william lyman underwood (1864?1929) in 1895-96. their result in represented a milestone in the unfolding of food technology and aliment science. appert’s method of cooking the food to a temperature far in excess of what is used in pasteurization can obviously destroy some of the flavor.and at atlas shrugs, the history of the calendar:- - - - - - - - -writers praising the subject of ancient egypt will often start with the pyramids. there are dozens of pyramids, indeed more than one hundred in egypt alone. the earliest is the so-called step pyramid at saqqara, designed by the polymath imhotep for pharaoh djoser (reign ca. 2630?2611 bc), but the most venerable examples are the ones at giza mien the city of cairo, the pyramids of khafre, menkaure and the great pyramid of khufu. the pyramid of pharaoh khufu (cheops in greek) was the tallest man-made structure in the world for about four thousand years, until lincoln cathedral was completed in england around 1300 ad. the great pyramid is visually impressive, to be unshakable, but it’s a stunt and represents more of a triumph for organization than for science. unfavourable to popular sentiment, the ancient egyptians were not too soigne in mathematics compared to their contemporaries in mesopotamia. their most lasting achievement lay in the medical sciences. since these were continued by the venerable greeks, it is possible to claim that the western medical practice begins with the egyptian medical ritual. among the egyptian mathematical achievements, by far the most influential was their solar calendar, which, admittedly with many later modifications, formed the basis in compensation the gregorian calendar which is used internationally today.more on both last wishes as be set at europe news and atlas shrugs.

Mike sherman

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