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The Role of the Crusades in the transfer of Islamic science to the West |
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By: FSTC Limited, Tue 04 March, 2003 |
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Local builders employed by the Crusaders revealed the solutions to the problems of construction orally or by demonstration. Talbot Rice points out that in the area dominated by the Seljuk Turks during the Crusades there was building work `involving fine stone masonry, pointed arches, elaborate voussoirs and defensive conceptions which were to follow in Romanesque and Gothic architecture a generation or so later.'
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The Role of Sicily in the transfer of Islamic Science to the West |
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By: FSTC Limited, Tue 04 March, 2003 |
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The role of Sicily in the transfer of Muslim science to the West has been well studied by Michelle Amari, but unfortunately the work, although extremely old has remained inaccessible because it is only available in Italian.
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Aspects of Influence of Muslim Science on the West |
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By: FSTC Limited, Tue 04 February, 2003 |
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To go through the Islamic impact on modern science and civilisation in detail demands so vast a book that nobody has written yet. Just some overall observations and points are raised here by the author.
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Misconceptions about Islamic and Greek Science |
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By: FSTC Limited, Wed 19 March, 2003 |
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According to some, heritage was lost during the Dark Ages (5th-15th AD) and then recovered during the Renaissance. The real evidence from history shows that where the Greeks had left off, the Muslims had continued thus setting up the foundations of modern science and civilisation.
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The Impact of Islamic Learning: The spread of Arabic scientific literature to Europe |
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By: Quoted N. Daniel, Sun 21 July, 2002 |
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Paul Tannery said of geometry of the eleventh century in Europe: "This is not a chapter in the history of science; it is a study in ignorance." Its level, he said, was equivalent to that in Greece before Pythagoras.
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