1,001 inventions mark Islam's role in science
This is a jolly little puff piece which is not typical of the Scotsman, however the comments are worthy of note.
The account of Khalid's discovery (of coffee, or coffee eating goats) is just one of a glittering treasury of untold tales from a golden age of discovery and innovation, which took place in the Islamic world between the seventh and 17th centuries.
It is this hidden history that a new exhibition aims to unveil. Entitled 1,001 Inventions, the exhibition opens at Glasgow Science Centre later this month and charts the innovations of exceptional scholars, and ordinary people, from the Islamic world who discovered and developed many items that are taken for granted today. The exhibits are divided into seven zones: home, hospital, market, school, town, universe and world.
Professor Salim Al-Hassani, chairman of the Foundation for Science Technology and Civilisation, creators of 1,001 Inventions, said there is a widespread misconception that science and technology withered during the "Dark Ages".
"The 1,001 Inventions exhibition aims, through a process of education and learning, to challenge this myth and celebrate the fact that Muslim civilisation was flourishing and contributed to the advancement of our society today," he said.
The comments:-
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Didn't they also invent the process where they convince their uneducated children to blow themselves up so as to kill and main innocent people?
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Any news of any inventions made in the last 300 years?
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We write with Roman letters but use Arabic numerals so the influence extends to something as basic as 1,2,3" And they pinched the idea from India.
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Most of this stuff attributed to Muslim scientists is just a rehash of stuff they got from the Greeks.
Eratosthenes who died in 194BC not only knew the earth was spherical but measured its circumference-which puts him 13 centuries ahead of al-Idrisi.
Al-Battani popularised trigonometry did he? Obviously he then knew the work of Pythagoras , a Greek who died around 500 BC.
Number theory was greatly advanced by the 'discovery' of the number zero. A concept which the Muslims stole from the Hindus when they dropped in to ravage and rob India.
This is a nice try at a puff piece but you'll have to do better than this.
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So we owe the muslim's for civilization, let's see stealing, reprinting and renaming, acquiring without permission and claiming invention, etc. A wonderful culture... current behavior bombs for children and woman, beheading girls for going to school, yes a peaceful, loving culture, interested in human advancement. May history return them to where they came from...MRD
Posted on 10/13/2007 12:06 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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