over seven decades ago, as the result of endeavors of a group of leading literary and scientific figures the farhangestan-e-awwal (first academy of iran) was established in may 1935 and its activity continued until 1953. presented here is a brief historical account of the establishment of the first academy of iran as well as a look at the biographical sketches of physicians at the academy.

We extend an established simulation-based method to test for significant short-duration (1-2 centuries) demographic events known from one documented historical and one oral historical context. Case study 1 extrapolates population data from the Western historical tradition using historically derived demographic data from the catastrophic European Black Death/bubonic plague (Yersinia pestis). We ...

bahrain territory is the cradle of one of the oldest civilizations in the middle east where dilmun civilization (bc 5000) once was located; it was the cultural center which granted knowledge to humanity in many subjects, especially famous for literature and religion. still, there is lack of research on the efforts of scientists in this territory regarding practical sciences such as medicine, ph...

studying the history of science in ancient civilizations can help to shed light on the mysteries of the history of science as well as the contribution of nations to the growth of science in the world throughout the history. among various branches of science, medicine is of particular importance and owing to the crucial role of physicians in this discipline; the present study has taken the role ...

abstract the discrimination between the meanings of science and religion, and the determination of the precise relationship between these two domains are the prerequisites of rectifying the meaning and the essence of religious science in the eyes of theologist mesbah. expressing the status of the science in the system of scientific religion, and the right contemplating of the impacts of religio...