Perspectives in Resource Management in Developing Countries: Land Appraisal and Development (Concept's International Series in Geography No. 5)

Science has evolved over the last 4000 years in two stages. The first serious attempt to understand the physical world and the different interactions of matter was expounded by the Greeks, in particular, Aristotle. Aristotelian science, however, involved little or no experimentation but was developed by argument, conjecture and observation Of natural behavior. Everything could be understood if eno...