To: SonOfDarkSkies
"I have studied the history of astronomy and physics. The Muslims contributed nothing." In the interest of historical accuracy, your statement is not quite true: many of the (mostly unpronounceable) names of major constellation stars are Arabic...
23 posted on
06/07/2009 5:53:12 AM PDT by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
To: TXnMA
your statement is not quite true...Not my statement. I merely posted the article.
24 posted on
06/07/2009 5:58:06 AM PDT by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Obama: "Enough about me, let's talk about you...what do you think of me?")
To: TXnMA
many of the (mostly unpronounceable) names of major constellation stars are Arabic... They were good at naming things.
To: TXnMA
In the interest of historical accuracy, your statement is not quite true: many of the (mostly unpronounceable) names of major constellation stars are Arabic...
From the article: Ptolemy's book was translated from Greek into Arabic, and "Most of the names for the brightest stars are of Arabic origin, because the names of these stars given in Ptolemy’s textbook were never translated from the Arabic. "
49 posted on
06/07/2009 8:18:40 AM PDT by
algernonpj
(He who pays the piper . . .)
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