Antiquity. Alchemists

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Despite all interdictions, at court yard of secular and church lords alchemists who searched for an elixir of immortality and a philosophers' stone, capable to transform other metals in gold worked. Sometimes through a mystical fog contours of the learnt laws of the Nature appeared. Slowly, but steadily, the volume of knowledge of world around extended. The thought of east philosophers - in the Arabian world, India, China, Korea, Japan - created the Universe models, called to explain the world around phenomenon in its variety.

Some scientists and philosophers tried to reconcile religious doctrines and scientific knowledge. In their opinion, the principle of the Divine foresight at all did not contradict the trues opened thanks to supervision and experience. Laying the foundation for the future successes of a science, outstanding thinkers of the Middle Ages have anticipated many principles and rules of which the science of later time subsequently has taken advantage.

Merits of Arabs in preservation, deepening and the further development of antique knowledge are difficult for overestimating.

' the Major ornament of the person - knowledge ', - was told by the Arabian scientists. In the countries halifata mathematics, the astronomy, geography successfully developed. In cities the higher schools opened. In Bagdad the library of manuscripts of the Greek scientists which named ' wisdom treasure ' has been collected.

To the Arabian mathematicians works of Evklida on geometry, works of the Indian astronomers and mathematicians were known. They have created algebra (from a word ' aldzhebr ' - the account), began to use the Indian figures. Arabs then these figures were borrowed by Europeans, however they wrongly are called till now as Arabian.