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No mention of the Toledo School of Translators, the equivalent to the Tizard mission of the 12th century.

That event along with similar events in Italy and elsewhere was what truly triggered the Renaissance but historians in the West won't ever acknowledge it using that phrasing.

Today, people are taught that Leonardo Da Vinci was hiding in a room somewhere and suddenly the Renaissance happened. That caliber of nonsense is necessary to explain the gap without recognizing the merit of other civilizations.

Then you read this and realize that everything you have been taught about medieval times are fake feel-good stories about how the West is the light

https://web.archive.org/web/20051210130856/http://umcc.ais.o... (book written in 1160 CE)

A brief extract:

> Now 'tis established in the exact Sciences by precise demonstration, that the Sun is a Spherical Body, and so is the Earth; and that the Sun is much greater than the Earth; and that part of the Earth which is at all times illuminated by the Sun is above half of it; and that in that half which is illuminated, the Light is most intense in the midst, both because that part is the most remote from Darkness, as also, because it offers a greater surface to the Sun; and that those parts which are nearer the Circumference of the Circle, have less Light; and so gradually, till the Circumference of the Circle, which encompasses the illuminated part of the Earth, ends in Darkness.

After the fall of Islamic civilization in the Iberian peninsula and the middle east, the world took many centuries to reach the same level of scientific progress from centuries earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%27s_law

If the Mongols had not burned the Grand library of Baghdad you would be in a flying car right now talking with your friends on Mars.




Historically, Islamic philosophers (as they were then called) took works from the greek philosophers before them and expanded upon it. Then a few other philosphers who did not like people learning from non-muslims leaned hard into fundamentalism and you now have the kind of Islam (Salafist/Wahhabism) that exists today, e.g. Saudi Arabia

The Mongols opened the door to fundamentalism, but it didn't have to go that way. The sack of Baghdad is a simplification

Read up on Al Ghazali, it is eye-opening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali


Yes. But we stopped studying the Greeks for a long time and had no paper. So we could not distribute copies of Greek works until paper was introduced here, and until we had those copies.

That trend, that lasted a long time, ended with the help of the Islamic civilization influence, with the arrival of paper and translated copies of the works you are talking about.

They were studying them. We were not. Our copies come from them, and the technology to distribute those copies also comes from them.

Our scientific tradition is a direct continuation of theirs, as they are the first advisors to the first doctors in the West.

https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/


Our scientific tradition is a direct continuation of theirs

A big influence for sure, but that claim is a stretch.

Look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_books#Middle_Ages


Not a stretch. Follow the chain of doctoral advisors.




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