Transcript 2- Women In MSE in Ancient World.ppt

Part 1
Participation of Women in
Mathematics, Science,
Engineering & Technology from
Antiquity to Present time
1-1
Early Women Scientists and
Engineers
• The earliest evidence of women engaged in activities
relating to science dates back to about 6000 years.
• Most of these women lived in the Middle East region.
• The earliest woman active in the medical sciences field
was Merit Ptah, who lived in Egypt around 2700 B.C.
• Throughout early antiquity up until about 500 B.C., at
most one or two women scientists have been identified
during each century.
• The earliest woman active in physical sciences and
engineering is Tapputi Belatekallim, a Babylonian
chemist (or perhaps we should refer to her as a chemical
engineer), who lived around 1200 B.C..
1-2
Women and Science in the Ancient
World
• The written history of science begins in Egypt
during the old kingdom, the age of the Pyramid
(2778 – 2263 B.C.).
• Medicine was an established profession in Egypt
prior to 3000 B.C. and educated women worked
as doctors and surgeons.
• The people of Mesopotamia - the Sumerians,
Babylonians and Assyrians- made the greatest
advances in science, particularly in observation
astronomy.