Posted on 01/17/2008 7:24:05 AM PST by forkinsocket
The academic world looks for any excuse to champion the muslim world these days and the media loves hyperbole (first, best, etc.). Right now at our local art museum there is an exhibit of korans. I don’t see the historians of art and science to be so proud of the work of Christians. The History Channel likes to point out how the Christian establishment tried to ‘hold back’ scientific discoveries.
15th Century reporter talking to the tile designer...
Reporter: This is just beautiful. How did you come up with the design?
Designer: I let my 5 adopted daughters from the Gaul area draw pictures of what they wanted and I just laid the tiles out with the pictures.
Reporter: Centuries from now, what will they think of this design?
Designer: Well, I hope they like it. I really spent very little time on it. What I really want to do is lay out a tile design of an infidel’s head flying through the air after being decapitated.
Reporter: Oh, that would be beautiful.
For the record, Isfahan is Persia. The mosques there are wonders to behold and are true architectural marvels and works of art.
There can be no doubt that an architect with considerable math skills designed and constructed the many arches.
10,000 monkeys at 10,000 typewriter - bingo, Shakespeare
Islam is nothing but a curse on the world, and there is nothing in it to inspire invention, beauty or the betterment of humanity. If it is good and in Islam, it came form something else. Bet on it. Mohammad and his little band of killers and thugs and the butchers and tyrants who came later were incapable of creating anything but the basest of culture.
1 Head + 1 Head = 2 infidel heads in a bucket?
I can accept that the tile guy figured out that his two tiles go together in all kinds of different ways, and that it is indeed Penrose’s kite-and-dart combination, but I also agree with an earlier post — the guy just happened to find something that worked out of many combinations.
But I don’t assume that there was a rigorous geometrical proof involved in the discovery, and I see that my first post of “implications” could suggest that I did.
These 3-D picture puzzles never work for me. < /s >
This seems to me to be the most reasonable way to look at it.
*snif* ... *snif*... smells like ... Bullshit!
Heh... alas, it’s a “NTSA” topic.
Mediaeval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough
Scotsman | 22-Feb-07 | Will Dunham
Posted on 02/22/2007 9:15:51 PM EST by xcamel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789584/posts
Islamic tiles reveal sophisticated maths
news@nature.com | 22 February 2007 | Philip Ball
Posted on 02/22/2007 10:24:27 PM EST by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789606/posts
45 posted on 02/24/2007 2:07:19 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789606/posts?page=45#45
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Probably was an outsider living among them asking to be saved in some math language before they beat and raped all the women and goats in his family, finally cutting off his head.
“Islam is such a blight on the whole world that extolling any contributions it may have made in the past is like putting lipstick on a pig.”
For general public propagandizing, arguably yes. There has certainly been some of what you describe going on since 2001 in the media, sometimes quite blatantly.
For people who are actually interested in history without needed to place every single study.theory/discovery in a modern amero-centric political context this sort of stuff is of interest.
one reasonable person speaks up
Posted a number of times (regurgitated story) over the last couple of years - FRSearch ‘penrose’
Rational commentary is going to get you in trouble! /s
Seriously, I think FR is the wrong forum for any serious history or archaeology article, given the quality of discourse.
Is there another forum for this with any depth of participation?
Maybe they were trying to follow a pattern but just couldn’t get the hang of it.
If you ignore the 11 tiny flaws, I have discovered the universal theory of everything.
“maybe the Nobel prize should be awarded to new explosive technologies...”
Clearly the winner for this year’s prize in irony. And it’s only January.
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