RE:Answer me balaord
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:41 AM Permalink
This simply shows your knowldge of history of science.Huge translation took place from arabic to latin during the middle ages and thats what paved renaissance..

Thats was the center of intellectucal activity?what stopped the Latin europe to learn from Greece directly ?why they have to translate Greec to arabic and then from Arabic to Latin

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RE:RE:Answer me balaord
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:46 AM Permalink
Influence of Islamic Astronomy in China

A papaer presented in the New York Academy of Sciences by Professor K. YABUUTI11 of Kyoto University Japan

blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1987.tb37225.x

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RE:RE:Answer me balaord
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:49 AM Permalink
The Korean Adaptation of the Chinese-Islamic Astronomical Tables

springerlink.com/content/h71pupd6jf5tv9cu/

By YUNLI SHI1 - Department of the History of Science and Scientific Archaeology University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, Anhui 230026, P.R. China

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RE:Answer me balaord
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:41 AM Permalink
Read Two Time Pulitzer Prize winning author's ground breaking New Book
God's Crucible-Islam and the Making of Europe-This book explains how Muslim
spain's legacy of tolerance and rich heritage of scientific accomplishments shaped Europe.
Historian David Levering Lewis challenges the eurocentric historians and the current
ludicorous and biased popular perception of Islamic civilization

This is one of Washington Post's publication's review of the book

readexpress.com/read_freeride/2008/02/classics_chaos_gods_crucible.php

Boston Globe on this book

boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/01/13/midwife_to_europes_modernity/

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RE:RE:Answer me balaord
by balaord on Apr 02, 2008 08:42 AM Permalink
who is Lewis?
Author Lewis - Once president of the Society of American Historians and Two time Pulitzer
prize winning author and currently a professor of history in Newyork univeristy
Link
silverdialogues.fas.nyu.edu/page/David_Levering_Lewis

Speech on University of Cambridge
admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008031004

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