By C. K. Raju
On inventory Western background, technology originated one of the Greeks, after which built in post-renaissance Europe. This tale used to be fabricated in 3 levels.
First, through the Crusades, medical wisdom from the world over, in captured Arabic books, used to be given a theologically-correct foundation by way of claiming it used to be all transmitted from the Greeks. the foremost instances of Euclid (geometry) and Claudius Ptolemy (astronomy)—both concocted figures—are used to demonstrate this method.
Second, through the Inquisition, international clinical wisdom used to be back assigned a theologically-correct beginning through claiming it was once no longer transmitted from others, yet was once “independently rediscovered” via Europeans. The situations of Copernicus and Newton (calculus) illustrate this means of “revolution through rediscovery”.
Third, the appropriated wisdom used to be reinterpreted and aligned to post-Crusade theology. Colonial and racist historians exploited this, arguing that the (theologically) “correct” model of medical wisdom (geometry, calculus, etc.) existed in simple terms in Europe.
These techniques of appropriation proceed to this present day.
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Arabs did not quite accept this story. , when the Arabs built the Bayt al Hikma (House of Wisdom) in Baghdad, they gathered knowledge from all over the world, including India, Persia and China. They certainly did not restrict themselves to Greek sources. The actions speak for themselves: the Arabs did not then think that science was primarily a Greek invention. Greek and Roman difficulties with elementary arithmetic The non-textual evidence provides a good reason for this. More than deduction, science is based on quantitative calculation.
Copernicus mimics both the questions and answers. ”42 It is known that a Byzantine Greek translation of Ibn Shatir’s work was available in the Vatican library, and that Copernicus knew Greek. Copernicus even transliterates Tusi’s notation.
This is another striking fact. The Persian king, Khusrau I, attached great significance to the enterprise of knowledge gathering. However, his Vizier went to India, not to Athens or Alexandria or Constantinople. This despite the fact that the very best Hellenic sources were directly available to Khusrau: the leading philosopher of the Roman empire, the people best acquainted with Hellenic knowledge, were physically present in his court, having sought refuge in Persia to escape the edicts of Justinian.