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For example:
Archimedes was indeed originally translated into Latin from Arabic:
Knowledge has indeed been passed on perfectly fine for hundreds without christianity: The Records of the Grand Historian in China were written a hundred years before christ. Thucydides was written in the fifth century BC.
To put it more bluntly: there is nothing special about christianity that helps it preserve scientific knowledge.
Nothing at all.
Not even Alexandria: Charlemagne's library was also destroyed in a war. Such tragedies do happen.
Not even the Byzantine monks: Rome simply had more written works of significance and that is why such a culture of writing arose.
Without christianity, we would have just had more practical books and much less theology. Nerds like books, autocrats like riches and prestige.
Finally, early christian apologists like Justin Martyr were just as obsessed with the jews as you are. For many years they claimed Plato plagiarized moses and that Pythagoras of all people was heavily influenced by the jews. It's typical wishful thinking: the jews made no scientific contributions of significance in this time period. No reason to mention them at all.
Quote: (11-29-2016 01:23 PM)Samseau Wrote:No. My statements were accurate.
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For example:
Archimedes was indeed originally translated into Latin from Arabic:
Quote:Quote:As was Euclid:
Plato of Tivoli's translations into Latin include al-Battani's astronomical and trigonometrical work De motu stellarum, Abraham bar Hiyya's Liber embadorum, Theodosius of Bithynia's Spherica, and Archimedes' Measurement of a Circle.
Quote:Quote:The spanish translations of such tests was then brought to europe by Italians such as Fibonacci.
Although known in Byzantium, the Elements was lost to Western Europe until about 1120, when the English monk Adelard of Bath translated it into Latin from an Arabic translation.
Knowledge has indeed been passed on perfectly fine for hundreds without christianity: The Records of the Grand Historian in China were written a hundred years before christ. Thucydides was written in the fifth century BC.
To put it more bluntly: there is nothing special about christianity that helps it preserve scientific knowledge.
Nothing at all.
Not even Alexandria: Charlemagne's library was also destroyed in a war. Such tragedies do happen.
Not even the Byzantine monks: Rome simply had more written works of significance and that is why such a culture of writing arose.
Without christianity, we would have just had more practical books and much less theology. Nerds like books, autocrats like riches and prestige.
Finally, early christian apologists like Justin Martyr were just as obsessed with the jews as you are. For many years they claimed Plato plagiarized moses and that Pythagoras of all people was heavily influenced by the jews. It's typical wishful thinking: the jews made no scientific contributions of significance in this time period. No reason to mention them at all.
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