A Case Study of Reverse Engineering Integrated in an Ancient Indian Alchemical Alloying W.S.R to Au-Cu-Zn Alloy, Using Part- Whole Shcema

Reverse engineering has prodigious applications and is the prime cause of todays several engineering marvels. Even though its origins are from our childhood toy dissection, it encouraged several innovators like Claudius Galenus (AD 129 – Ca 200), Leonardo da vinci (AD 1452 – 1519) etc in discovering the innate fundamental principles and enable a device / substance / material / assembly through a organized analysis of its part hole schemata and explore its functions. Its back bone is deductive reasoning and its key tool is dismemberment of parts that make the whole through a unique structure. Present work aims at unfolding materials and methods of copper – gold-zinc alloy, synthesized in Indian alchemical procedures through the concepts of reverse engineering with part whole schemata. However, modern characterization tools like SEM, TGA and Dynamic analysis were also involved in discovering these ancient synthesis root patterns