Posted on 09/12/2023 4:07:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Europe never lost knowledge. It stopped developing doe to the Islamic invasion during this time.
Thanks. America has it’s own trickster, Bugs Bunny.
It was also preserved in Constantinople until the 4th Crusade sacked.the.city.
Virtually all the Greek classics as we know them were due to Byzantine manuscripts copied in Constantinople in the 8th and 9th centuries. They were brought from there to Florence in the 15th century as scholars fled the approach of the Ottoman Turks. After Constantinople fell, Mehmed II was respectful of the remaining Imperial library, and as a bibliophile himself was versed in Greek philosophy.
He would have known of Al-Kindi, the first real Islamic philosopher from Baghdad, who knew the Greek philosophers well. It is fair to say that Arabs in Baghdad did little to preserve Greek writings compared to the Turks, and to the Byzantine scholars who had fled to Christendom with their precious manuscripts long before.
All we are is dust in the wind.
Plato lived hundreds of years before Christianity.
Boiling urine?
From the dude’s expression, looks like it don’t taste so good.
The musselmen only kept those manuscripts which were wanted by particular individuals; they burned the rest in accordance with the teaching that: what is not in the koran is anathema and must be destroyed; that is the real reason so much of Classical Western literature is missing.
“until the 4th Crusade sacked.the.city.”
Slander!
The 4th Crusade’s plunder of Constantinople (1204) was 200 years before the Ottomon Turks beseiged, conquered and vanquished the city ...1453.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople
Historical revisionist bs....
I am a follower of Mediocrates............
I’m a disciple of the man, myself. I can play most of his licks.
That’s how phosphorus was isolated...
Socrates’ brother Shoecrates tried to get everyone to stop wearing sandals, and another brother Redsocrates invented the ancient Olympics’ version of baseball. Okay, I’ll stop now.
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