To: me_newswire
Arabs Once Dominated Science Yeah, right. Back in the days when there wasn't any Science. We're talking 500 years ago!
What great developments did they actually make themselves, and not co-op.
Their chief contributions - the zero and Hindu-Arabic numerals - were invented by the Hindus. The Arabs just take credit for it, like everything else.
62 posted on
04/21/2004 6:15:26 AM PDT by
Bon mots
To: Bon mots; amanda99
Their chief contributions - the zero and Hindu-Arabic numerals - were invented by the Hindus. The Arabs just take credit for it, like everything else.
Correct: THe Slamics take credit for that, folks we now classify as Arabs: Egyptians, PErsians and Sumerians/Irqis were pretty good and highly civilised before being contaminated with slam
64 posted on
04/21/2004 6:42:23 AM PDT by
Cronos
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