A "bit more" than just a few guys.
Lists of muslims mathematicians, scientists and astronomers.
An idea of what Islam could have become had not collapsed into an immobilist theocracy.
that in and of itself would make for an interesting TL
A "bit more" than just a few guys.
Lists of muslims mathematicians, scientists and astronomers.
An idea of what Islam could have become had not collapsed into an immobilist theocracy.
I mean, microbiology is just grinding lenses for microscopes and growing things in Petri dishes.
To go really far back, is there any way to get out of the stone age faster?
And war, of course. There are perhaps only a few (?) other things besides war that get as much interplay going between theory and practice.The microscope and microbiology arose because lenses were already being made for telescopes and eyepieces, to facilitate oceanic navigation.
And this is an issue. "Knowledge" stands in the way of knowledge.http://books.google.com/books?id=YK...whether Muslims, Jews, or Christians"&f=false
' . . . medieval physicians and scholars, whether Muslims, Jews, or Christians, generally shared the assumption that Galenism was a complete and perfect system, . . '