Book on the history and philosophy of mathematics and scientific knowledge from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. The origin of the sciences dates back to ancient times. Already a few thousand years before R. X. traces of a relatively high culture we find in the Egyptians, Babylonians and in China. But our information about these rudiments of knowledge is extremely scarce and only about the state of education in Greece and among the Indians several centuries before R. X. we can judge more positively...