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Chinese astronomer would search the night skies and document the stars and what they observed.

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A Chinese alchemist would often experiment with different types of medicine and herbs.

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The ancient Chinese developed calendars that showed that they thought a year was 365 1/4 days long, which was extremely close to the actual length of a year. From these calendars we also found that the Ancient Chinese had split the length of a year into twelve months.

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Chinese astronomers were able to predict tides and seasonal changes because of their observations from observing the relationship between constellations and changes on earth.

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The Ancient Chinese astronomers used an invention called the sighting tube to see very faint and distant stars. This ancient telescope was different from our modern telescoped because it was simple, but it had all the elements of our modern telescopes.

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This is a gnomon, or a Chinese sundial used to measure the shadow of the sun. This invention helped established the summer and winter solstices.

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The Chinese established the Winter and Summer solstices. They did this by observing the sun's shadow. They observed the sun's shadow by measuring the length of the sun's shadow over the course of months. They observed that the sun's shadow elongated in size up until December 22. Because of this observation, they named December 22 the winter solstice. They also observed that the sun's shadow shrank until around July 22. Also based on this observation, they named July 22 the summer solstice.

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The first observatories, used by astronomers, were built 4,000 years ago by Huang-Ti.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Huang- Ti was an emperor in china who established many important inventions in Ancient China.

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The ancient Chinese had two different types of scientists who studied the sky. One scientist is called an astrologer, a scientist who thought that they would be able to predict the future by plotting the movements of the starts. Another scientist, an astronomer who measured planets and stars in various ways.

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Modern chemistry can be traced back to china.

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This is the yin and yang, a huge part a balance in nature.

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This is a traditional Chinese lodestone compass. In the middle was the spoon shaped lodestone always pointing north.

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This kind of compass was one with a lodestone needle that always pointed in one direction, North.

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The Ancient Chinese invented a compass. These ancient Chinese people noticed that lodestone has an attractive force that later became known as magnetism. They then discovered a spoon shaped piece of lodestone that only points in one direction.This discovery helped the Chinese to find a use for lodestone that we still use today.

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The Chinese created gunpowder by mixing charcoal, saltpeter, which is another name for potassium nitrate, and sulfur.

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This was one of the Chinese cannons that was filled with gunpowder. When they fired the cannon, flaiming arrows would be launched at their enemies.

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A war invention that the ancient Chinese invented was a cannon like figure that used gunpowder to launch flaming arrows at their enemies.

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This is an acupuncture doll. These were made to help ancient Chinese doctors know where to place the needles on the patient's body.

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This is the Ancient practice of Moxibustion

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Ancient Chinese Alchemists made different medals. An example is that they made brass by combining zinc carbonate and copper.

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The reason that the Chinese civilization developed was because farmers grew a significant surplus of crops.

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The Chinese emperors would often send messages by foot, which were communications that were not yet being used in Europe.

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The Chinese people built long winding roads connecting their vast territory.

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The ancient Chinese developed a system of writing over 3,500 years ago

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Science in Ancient China
George Beshore

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The Chinese invented a vaccine that would prevent small pox.

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Step into The Chinese Empire
Philip Steele

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The ancient Chinese people invented a way to stop illness from spreading to other people. This method was called fire treatment. They did this by burning a chemical that gave off a poisonous smoke that would kill bacteria.

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The Ancient Chinese invented a wine that made their patients sleepy. This was later called an aesthetic.

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After the Chinese developed an understanding of blood circulation, they developed different surgical techniques.

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Chinese people named the life force of the body ch'i (CHEE). As they were looking for clues as to how ch'i moved through the body, they discovered how blood circulated

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Moxa, or moxibustion was a practice that ancient Chinese healers used. It was simulating pain to a lower level using heat.

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People and doctors in China still use acupuncture today to treat mild diseases.

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The Chinese developed acupuncture, which is to insert sharp needles into the patient's body at specific points. This was one of the first practices developed by the Ancient Chinese.

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Chinese people believed that illness and sickness occurred because of unbalance in the yin and yang

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Roots of Chinese medicine can are traced back to 4,000 years ago. This was because of an emperor named Haung-Ti.

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Science in Ancient China
George Beshore

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The Chinese studies herbs and plants and animals parts for potential medicinal qualities before they made them into medicine.