Coleon wrote:chronic wrote:The geniuses western society wants you to forget about;
Ibn al-Natis, a Syrian from the late 13th century, is credited with giving the first correct description of blood circulation in the body, 400 years before the work of Thomas Harvey.
The Polish astronomer Copernicus (1473-1543) has Arabic astronomers to thank for his calculations: indeed, there are diagrams in his books that appear to have been lifted exactly from the work of the Arab astronomer Ibn Shatir 100 years earlier.
The modern scientific method, based on observation and measurement, is often said to have been established in the 17th century by Francis Bacon and René Descartes. But the Iraqi-born physicist Ibn al-Haythem (Alhazen), had the same idea in the 10th century.
The word “alchemy” derives from the Arabic “alkimya”, which means “chemistry”. The world’s first true chemist was a Yemeni Arab by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan, born in 721.
Al-Razi (Rhazes) was the greatest clinician of the Middle Ages. Born near Teheran in 865, he ran a psychiatric ward in Baghdad at a time when, in the Christian world, the mentally ill would have been regarded as being possessed by the devil.
The word “algebra” comes from the Arabic “al-jebr”, and was made famous by the great ninth-century mathematician al-Khwarizmi. Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala(The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing) presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. He is considered the founder of algebra.
By the 16th century, while scientific and technological progress continued to be made at a gentler pace in the Muslim world under Persian and Ottoman rule, the European Renaissance was well under way.
The mystery is why the debt the West owed to Muslim scholars was then overlooked: acknowledged at all, the Abbasids are normally credited with nothing more than acting as the guardians of Greek science.
In a world of increasing religious tension, the untold story of Arabic science is a timely reminder of the debt the West owes to the Muslim world – and, perhaps more importantly, of the proud heritage today’s Muslims should acknowledge.
But one cannot deny;
Leibniz
Einstein
Newton
Platon ( Even tho I do not agree with his 'view' of the 'perfect' city)
Aristotle
Socrates
Vinci
Hawking
Confucius
Sun Tzu(Great book)
The pyramid builders (whoever they may be?)
Archimedes
Edison
Feynman
Tesla
Fischer
Swedenborg
Geniuses are born not created.
your intellect and copy and paste skills is undeniable
Aren't they? I just forgot the name of Natis and found this nice article when I was searching for it, I assure you that I know all these philosophers and what they have done. Even tho I never claimed it was mine (witch you can clearly see by my highlighting) but yeah, thanks for the remark.
