What? were Babylonians Black, gay, m*slim, transsexual or peanut allergic? is this great because the Greeks are White?
I don’t care, and there is no proof that the Greeks didn’t develop it first.
"Plimpton 322 predates Hipparchus by more than 1000 years,".................
The Greeks developed what we now call traditional trigonometry.
The Babylonians developed a different type of trig..................
They were Semitic. Their civilization was more developed than the Greeks in many areas including astronomy and mathematics.
It is nothing to sneer about. There is a reason there is a saying that “history begins in Sumer.”
It’s great because it’s a better understanding of our world and how civilizations built knowledge. And there’s definitely proof that the Greeks didn’t develop it first. Knowledge is good, whining about knowledge is bad.
Pythagorus was an initiate into the Mystery Religion which passed on the wisdom of the past and he was from what is now Turkey. He easily could have learned about Right triangles from them and he studied in Egypt as well.
Who knows the knowledge that was destroyed by those who burned the Library of Alexandrian destroying priceless materials from centuries past?
interesting response