Posted on 11/06/2007 7:02:15 AM PST by DogByte6RER
All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists
LAHORE: Muslim scientists have made all discoveries of the current age, said University of Columbias Arabic and Islamic Studies prof George Saliba at a seminar at the Government College University (GCU) on Monday. The seminar, titled The Problems of Historiography of Islamic Science, was held at Fazl-e-Hussain Hall. Saliba gave a critique of the standard classical accounts of the rise of Islamic science. He detailed problems in the accounts and explained alternative historiography that described the rise of an Islamic scientific tradition as a result of social and political conditions within the nascent Islamic empire. He said Muslim philosophy was the impetus behind Islamic science that had contributed to various disciplines including botany, zoology, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physics, chemistry, physiology and mathematics in the pre-industrial era. He said the use of decimal fractions was not a Western invention and that it was discovered by a Muslim scientist. He said the binary system, on which the computer was based, was also invented by a Muslim scientist. He said Arab/Islamic science was not an intermediary between Greek science and European science, but was rather the Renaissance that integrated the Islamic science with European science. Saliba also visited the English Language and Literature Department where he engaged faculty members in a conversation on the Islamic and Renaissance paradigms. staff report
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Nuclear fission was DISCOVERED; the A-bomb was invented!
MV
Groups that have no significant accomplishments usually try to take credit for the work of others, or invent a glorious history for themselves that never existed. There are whole departments in US universities devoted to such nonsense.
Still, the sentiment of my question was accurate.
ML/NJ
Yed. Very accurate, the minor and understandable error only serves to further highlight underlying truth.
The muslims never invented anything. They took over, copied, inherited, the Greek Byzantine inheritance.
Read DeLacy O’Leary.
How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs
DeLacy O’Leary
The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movementshow Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine, which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world and later passed on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O’Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics, and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade, and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites, Indian influences by land and sea, and the rise of Buddhism, O’Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect it had on the history of medicine, science, and historical geography, as well as the history of the Arab world.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/071030/0710307470.HTM
All Your Modern Discoveries Are Belong To Us
Yes! Chemistry is THAT important.
There Are No Jews In Jerusalem. NEEeeveh!
Yed???? I meant Yes...
There are lies, foolish lies, there are demonic lies, and Islam is all three.
Of course not, the Russians invented it.
The formulation of poisons was undoubtedly important to møøselimbs...
That would be when their (pedophile) spiritual leader decided that the world was fine just as it is and declared that “good” Arabs should never change beyond their 5th century culture.
Other than possibly being ahead of the rest of the world on camel and goat breeding science, I do not see any major contributions
Which is why the majority of the Muslim world lives in poverty?
I guess if this were true you would have to come to the conclusion that the Muslims inventors don't like Muslims very much.
conceal female skin because they are too weak to see it...
blame the rape victim because they are too weak to resist bodily urges...
bomb shopping centers because they cannot stand to see successful commerce (as they are incapable of productivity... without the oil production facilities that they nationalized (read: stole), the entire Middle Easthas the GDP of Belgium)...
desecrate the houses of worship of all other faiths, because they all so clearly show Islam's utter mediocrity...
march and demand the return of "ancient lands" because they are too imcompetent to win a single war in the 20th Century against a non-Muslim opponent (even with 6-to-1 numerical advantages and a sneak attack on 3 sides)...
Yeah, I guess I'd be frustrated and willing to accept some serious levels of cognitive dissonance too, if that was the culture I was forced to profess.
One culture's animal husbandry is another's bestiality...
Not even close. It wasn't Muslim philosophy, it was Greek philosophy. Specifically, the writings of Aristotle. There's a really interesting book called "The Children of Aristotle". It talks about how the Muslims preserved the Greek writings during the Dark Ages. The western world rediscovered the Greek writings at the same time as the Muslims started to reject Greek philosophy. This resulted in the resurgence of the western world and the stagnation & decline of the Islamic world.
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