RE:To Balaord - About Maps
by veera kumar on Feb 25, 2008 09:11 PM Permalink
the truth is chinese were great explorer and they did discover north america ...
RE:RE:To Balaord - About Maps
by balaord on Feb 25, 2008 09:19 PM Permalink
and do yu know the name of the chinnese who is now in some circles credited for the discovery. he was Muslim chinnese Zheng He
RE:To Balaord - About Maps
by balaord on Feb 25, 2008 09:21 PM Permalink
...We are on a quest to retrace the route of the man who ranks as perhaps China's greatest adventurer, the 15th century admiral, Zheng He. A Muslim, a eunuch, a warrior, Zheng He vastly outdid his approximate contemporaries, the Western naval heroes who helped define the global Age of Exploration....
RE:To Balaord - About Maps
by balaord on Feb 25, 2008 09:17 PM Permalink
The first world wide globe used Muslims -see the speech by UNESCO director general of science in world premier science magazine Nature
nature.com/embor/journal/v4/n3/full/embor781.html
Also note -This speech was given on vatican potifical academy
RE:To Balaord - About Maps
by The Brain on Feb 25, 2008 09:24 PM Permalink
Get your fact corrected Mr. Gagan..
Islam always says that the earth is spherical...
Where in Quran does it says that the earth is Flat???
Read this verses from QURAN:- "And the earth, moreover, hath He made egg shaped." (Al-Qur'an 79:30)
The Arabic word for egg here is "dahaahaa1" which means an ostrich-egg. The shape of an ostrich-egg resembles the geo-spherical shape of the earth. Thus the Qur%u2019an correctly describes the shape of the earth.
RE:To Balaord - About Maps
by Babu on Feb 25, 2008 09:39 PM Permalink
Pythagoras 571 BC, Plato (427 BC - 347 BC) , Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC). These greek philosephors refered earth to a spherical object.
Dear Bala, Please stop spamming Rediff boards. You are always up with some discrete and out-of-context comments from somebody. Those out-of-context quotes do not explain anything.
Read about scientific contributions from other scientists too, in addition to Muslims. I know your problem, whenever you see a Muslim name, you feel like all scientists are muslim, but you dont realize that the other 98% also belong to some other religions.
