Posted on 08/26/2012 4:59:28 PM PDT by YankeeReb
National Geographic Explorer’s Hall in Washington D.C. has hosted some of the most prestigious exhibits in America. Previous exhibits have included the Chinese terracotta warriors, as well as the James Caird, the lifeboat Sir Ernest Shackleton miraculously sailed from Antarctica to South Georgia Island in 1916. Currently it is hosting a curious exhibit through February 2013 entitled “1001 Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization.” This high tech, slickly produced exhibit explicitly seeks to debunk the “myth” that the dark ages were dark.
The exhibit purports to provide examples of innovations from Muslim civilization, and some of the claims may come as a surprise to those familiar with the Wright Brothers or Yuri Gagarin.
I recently visited “1001 Inventions” which was housed on the same floor as a fantastic Titanic exhibit. I purchased entry to the museum at a ticket booth staffed by Rebecca Head, a National Geographic employee. Perhaps assuming I was heading to see the Titanic exhibit, Head pushed attendance at 1001 Inventions – “There is a really great exhibit on Muslim inventions you should see.”
The exhibit begins with star power – a short movie starring Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley. Kingsley plays a librarian who faces a trio of young uniformed (presumably British) students seeking information about “the dark ages.”
Kingsley’s character bristles at the children’s characterization, critical of those “filling your head with such nonsense and ripping down the good of former civilizations.”
But “everyone knows the Greeks and Romans invented everything!” one child replies.
Kingsley’s librarian doesn’t equivocate – “some of the most important discoveries” were made by “Muslim civilizations.”
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Most islamic countries allow, (sometimes hidden), slavery.
That’s all anyone really needs to know about the advances of the “muslim world.”
Mark
***They invented wiping your ass with the bare hand you don’t eat with.***
But then, how do the women make pita bread? One handed?
Yes and in 1955 when my cousin first saw Superman on my uncle's new TV, he tied a towel around his neck and glided down the stairwell . He managed to fly between bumps and landed more, mostly more , and not so much less , unharmed . But there where periods of time that he did fly and he did it without a tail .
(true story, he was 7 )
Sorry. You’re forgetting about Japaneses and Norse steel making techniques. There is a lot of independent re-invention in the course of history.
Those were developed by Hindus, adopted by Persians and called Arabic by Europeans because that is where they first learned about them.
National geographic is a big promoter of the global warming hoax.
When the Muslims conquered Constantinople, they also took over the great library, which housed all of the writings of the Greek philosophers. The West thought that all of these writings were lost until they were rediscovered in the 12th century to have been translated into Arabic. For the better part of 800 years the Muslims had been using the knowledge of the Greek philosophers. That is the reason why they stumbled across the concept of zero, from their study of Greek philosophy.
Now, at the same time that the Muslim culture is at its zenith and they happily share their Arabic translations with the West, their religious leaders decide that philosophy is not important anymore and it then was no longer prized.
The rediscovery of Aristotle and all of the other Greek philosophers is the very reason why the West created it's Renaissance. Meanwhile, the Islamic culture has not advanced since those days in the 12th century.
No infrastructure, no natural resources, no manufacturing capabilities, no building materials, neighbors that wanted to steal all your stuff and kill you, no water, no leadership, no schools, very hard just to stay alive in such a crappy environment...just to name a few.
If you lived in the middle of a desert, what would you use?
The Hindus invented the numeral system; the Babylonians and others had invented the decimal system; the Greeks came up with what we would call algebraic equations for solving complex arithmetic problems, (but didn't they didn't call it that); the Nestorians translated much of the Greek works into arabic; etc.
The only thing I can tell you about true muslim involvement in math is: they coined the name for this branch of math “Algebra”, and one of their ilk experimented with making it a purely hypothetical exercise, as opposed to actual problem-solving.
Thanks
Camel poop.
So they ignored the Muslim Ottoman Empire and just examined the Dark Ages ? Prior to the start of World War 1, the Ottoman Empire was known as the sick old man of Europe. What an accomplishment considering the Empire had been around for over 400 years.
Perhaps some by products (leaves, stalks, hides) of the food they were eating.
If they had crap, it seems likely they had food.
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Posted on 08/26/2012 7:59:47 AM PDT by markomalley
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When the Muslims conquered Constantinople, they also took over the great library, which housed all of the writings of the Greek philosophers. The West thought that all of these writings were lost until they were rediscovered in the 12th century
Didn’t Firnas rip off Icarus?
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