Cite? Cause Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haytham (Arab muslim), Al-Biruni (Persian muslim) and Ibn Sina (Persian muslim) among others played a big role in the development of the scientific method.[0]
The development of science is rooted in the works of Aristotle, Galileo, Bacon, and Newton. In order to succeed in the West it had to break the stranglehold of Christianity on the intellectual scene (thanks to Aquinas).
Further, science has nothing to do with religion in general, and the Moslem religion in particular. On the contrary, Islam is radically opposed to reason, and the few science-minded intellectuals, inspired by Ancient Greek texts, that lived undr Islam rule a thousand years ago were persecuted whenever they attempted to uphold reason over faith.
Parts of the growth of mathematics in the West, from time of the Renaissance, was inspired by the rediscovery of Ancient Greek texts. The Western mathematicians who looked at what Moslems had done with this were mostly revulsed, especially by their bad transaltions, and hence returned to the study of the original texts and problems, such as the Diophantine equations.
I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazen deserves to be better known and I am forever intrigued by Omar Khayam.
Those so called "Dark ages" was a very Christian thing. At that time Islam was doing pretty well by many standards of modernity, better than most of Europe.
i think you might have thought you were on reddit right? putting comments like this without any comments backing it up and saying some leftist narrow minded view of the world full of self hatred toward the christian civilisation that accounted for a lot in the fact that you can today type on a keyboard posting on the internet (yes you guys think it is alright as you don't insult an opressed minority I know) won't work on HN.
> the fact that you can today type on a keyboard posting on the internet
Perhaps you have heard of 'algebra', 'algorithm', 'algorism', 'positional system', etc. perhaps not., Perhaps you will comprehend the connection, then again perhaps not.
BTW are leftists primarily christian ? Otherwise the 'self hatred' part would require some out of body experience.
EDIT: Apologies HN for feeding the troll, hadn't checked his/her comment history before.
Cite? Cause Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Haytham (Arab muslim), Al-Biruni (Persian muslim) and Ibn Sina (Persian muslim) among others played a big role in the development of the scientific method.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method#E...
The development of science is rooted in the works of Aristotle, Galileo, Bacon, and Newton. In order to succeed in the West it had to break the stranglehold of Christianity on the intellectual scene (thanks to Aquinas).
Further, science has nothing to do with religion in general, and the Moslem religion in particular. On the contrary, Islam is radically opposed to reason, and the few science-minded intellectuals, inspired by Ancient Greek texts, that lived undr Islam rule a thousand years ago were persecuted whenever they attempted to uphold reason over faith.
Parts of the growth of mathematics in the West, from time of the Renaissance, was inspired by the rediscovery of Ancient Greek texts. The Western mathematicians who looked at what Moslems had done with this were mostly revulsed, especially by their bad transaltions, and hence returned to the study of the original texts and problems, such as the Diophantine equations.
Religious flamewars are not welcome on Hacker News.
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I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazen deserves to be better known and I am forever intrigued by Omar Khayam. Those so called "Dark ages" was a very Christian thing. At that time Islam was doing pretty well by many standards of modernity, better than most of Europe.
i think you might have thought you were on reddit right? putting comments like this without any comments backing it up and saying some leftist narrow minded view of the world full of self hatred toward the christian civilisation that accounted for a lot in the fact that you can today type on a keyboard posting on the internet (yes you guys think it is alright as you don't insult an opressed minority I know) won't work on HN.
> the fact that you can today type on a keyboard posting on the internet
Perhaps you have heard of 'algebra', 'algorithm', 'algorism', 'positional system', etc. perhaps not., Perhaps you will comprehend the connection, then again perhaps not.
BTW are leftists primarily christian ? Otherwise the 'self hatred' part would require some out of body experience.
EDIT: Apologies HN for feeding the troll, hadn't checked his/her comment history before.
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What about this dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi