RE:earth
by balaord on Apr 19, 2008 06:24 PM Permalink
Quran says Earth is flat or Muslims belive edarth is flat -this is one those ridiculos charge some rediff scholors throw at Muslims.The truth should be told louder now
Actually,Earth is belived to be flat by Europeans until Muslims rescued them from this theory Your school text books wont say science history, for real science , you should look into peer reviewd premier science magazines like American Scientist Dana Mackenzie , a Princeton Mathematician writes in the premier science magazine -American Scientist - The Magazine of Sigma XI,The Scientific reasearch society He says
.....At a time when Europeans believed that the Earth was flat, Muslim scientists knew how to correct for the Earth's curvature. Two recently discovered instruments have proved that Islamic mathematicians were even further ahead of their time than anyone knew....
RE:earth
by balaord on Apr 19, 2008 06:25 PM Permalink
Check Royal Astronmical Society of Hardvard univeristy's publication on this
...Muslim scientits were calculating earth's accelration a thousand years before europe copied that idea and dramtized the whole affair by citing Gallilio as a great prophet..for saying things which are known to Muslims several hundred years....
adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972MNRAS.159..453N
The Earth's acceleration as deduced from al-Biruni's solar data
