PRELUDE
Posted by historyofscience101 in INDEX on February 24, 2014
IMHOTEP (c.2650 BCE)
Architect of civilisation
Medical sage, astronomer, mathematician, architect.
Architect of the first pyramid built during the reign of the second pharaoh of the Third Dynasty, with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Came to be revered as a god of healing and identified by the Greeks with their own Aesculapius.