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  RE:why the muslims ape the kafir technology?
by balaord on Apr 25, 2008 11:11 PM   Permalink
How original is Roger Bacon - the so called pioneer of empiricism?

Encyclopedia of History of science

...In this part, also, it is evident that Roger Bacon is making use of such Arabian writers as Alkindi and Alhazen, and this is of especial interest, since it has been used by his detractors, who accuse him of lack of originality, to prove that his seeming inventions and discoveries were in reality adaptations of the Arab scientists...

cosmovisions.com/Williams020304.htm

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  RE:why the muslims ape the kafir technology?
by balaord on Apr 25, 2008 11:09 PM   Permalink
How original are the works of the so called great renaissance artist Lorenzo Ghiberti?

Mark Smith of Univeristy of Columbia in Cambridge Journal

...That the medieval Latin version of Ibn al-Haytham-s Kitab al-Manair was translated into Italian in the fourteenth century has been known for well over a century. Recent studies have shown that this translation, which is contained in Vat. Lat. 4595, was instrumental in the composition of Lorenzo Ghiberti-s Commentario terzo on art..

journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=104367

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  RE:why the muslims ape the kafir technology?
by balaord on Apr 25, 2008 11:08 PM   Permalink
How original is Leonarda Da Vinci?

STUDIES ON LEONARDO DA VINCI by Kim H. Veltman from the premier - Maatricht mcluhan institue of Netherlands.he writes in the European Centre for Digital

Culture, Knowledge Organisation and Learning Technology

...Werner believed that Leonardo's theory of vision owed much to the Arabic tradition, but had also been modified as a result of his own experiments with the camera obscura. Werner went on to consider Leonardos work on other optical problems-binocular and stereoscopic vision, optical illusions, his experiments
to demonstrate the rectilinear propagation of light. These, claimed Werner, derived mainly from Alkindi and Alhazen....

mmi.unimaas.nl/people/Veltman/books/contin/title.html

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  RE:why the muslims ape the kafir technology?
by Yaqoot Mir on Apr 25, 2008 11:18 PM   Permalink
Ape kaffir technology? what the hell is that supposed to mean? have you read this article? are you on drugs?

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  RE:why the muslims ape the kafir technology?
by balaord on Apr 25, 2008 11:07 PM   Permalink
Who apes whose technology and denies credit??

How original is Johannes Kepler?

From Florida State univeristy - Department of Optics

...The efforts of Alhazen resulted in over one hundred works, the most famous of which was Kitab-al-Manadhirn, rendered into Latin in the Middle Ages. The translation of the book on optics exerted a great influence upon the science of the western world, most notably on the work of Roger Bacon and Johannes Kepler....

micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/index.html


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