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Would the sharp upturn have happened if the dark ages didn't occur or is the graph too simplistic? No Eastern civs etc.....
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Would the sharp upturn have happened if the dark ages didn't occur or is the graph too simplistic? No Eastern civs etc..... -
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Jesus christ, are you serious?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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Whoever made that graph needs to work on their trolling skills.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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Originally posted by Asher
Jesus christ, are you serious?
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That graph
Resident Filipina Lady Boy Expert.Comment
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If it were about preferred flavours of ice cream, perhaps.
As regards scientific advances, it's pants.
Specifically in relation to advances in Islam in astronomy, optics, medicine and mathematics and to advances in mathematics in South East Asia and India.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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Is that meant to be a joke ?Originally posted by Japher
how much did they influence advancements elsewhere?
Hardly at all
It's very good, if it is.
Fibonacci on foreigners and their learning:
Fibonacci writes in his famous book Liber abaci (1202):-
When my father, who had been appointed by his country as public notary in the customs at Bugia acting for the Pisan merchants going there, was in charge, he summoned me to him while I was still a child, and having an eye to usefulness and future convenience, desired me to stay there and receive instruction in the school of accounting. There, when I had been introduced to the art of the Indians' nine symbols through remarkable teaching, knowledge of the art very soon pleased me above all else and I came to understand it, for whatever was studied by the art in Egypt, Syria, Greece, Sicily and Provence, in all its various forms.
further:
Liber abaci, published in 1202 after Fibonacci's return to Italy, was dedicated to Scotus. The book was based on the arithmetic and algebra that Fibonacci had accumulated during his travels. The book, which went on to be widely copied and imitated, introduced the Hindu-Arabic place-valued decimal system and the use of Arabic numerals into Europe. Indeed, although mainly a book about the use of Arab numerals, which became known as algorism, simultaneous linear equations are also studied in this work. Certainly many of the problems that Fibonacci considers in Liber abaci were similar to those appearing in Arab sources.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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And what does that anecdote prove?Comment
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Originally posted by Last Conformist
Whoever made that graph needs to work on their trolling skills.I need a foot massageComment
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that Molly knows a lot of good **** off the top of his head.Originally posted by Ecthy
And what does that anecdote prove?"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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By the way, if I recall correctly the greek period and hellenistic period centered in Alexandria were far "richer" in scientific advances han the "roman" periodI need a foot massageComment
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QFT.Originally posted by Last Conformist
Whoever made that graph needs to work on their trolling skills."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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