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| ‘All modern discoveries are by Muslim scientists’ |
| 2007-11-07 |
| H/T Neptunus Lex LAHORE: Muslim scientists have made all discoveries of the current age, said University of ColumbiaÂ’s Arabic and Islamic Studies prof George Saliba at a seminar at the Government College University (GCU) on Monday. The seminar, titled The Problems of Historiography of Islamic Science, was held at Fazl-e-Hussain Hall. Saliba gave a critique of the standard classical accounts of the rise of Islamic science. He detailed problems in the accounts and explained alternative historiography that described the rise of an Islamic scientific tradition as a result of social and political conditions within the nascent Islamic empire. He said Muslim philosophy was the impetus behind Islamic science that had contributed to various disciplines including botany, zoology, algebra, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, astronomy, physics, chemistry, physiology and mathematics in the pre-industrial era. He said the use of decimal fractions was not a Western invention and that it was discovered by a Muslim scientist. He said the binary system, on which the computer was based, was also invented by a Muslim scientist. He said Arab/Islamic science was not an intermediary between Greek science and European science, but was rather the Renaissance that integrated the Islamic science with European science. Saliba also visited the English Language and Literature Department where he engaged faculty members in a conversation on the Islamic and Renaissance paradigms. staff report |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #18 But you see all those discoveries were made by pre-history muslims....... Just like Moses, Abraham, Jesus, and all the other prophets were really muslims.... Is there anything Islam won't steal? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2007-11-07 22:29 |
| #17 This is gonna piss Al Gore off. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2007-11-07 20:48 |
| #16 Did the learned professor say what Muslim scientists had contributed in the last 300 or so years? |
| Posted by: Goober Omolurong9545 2007-11-07 20:45 |
| #15 Don't forget that brilliant Islamic scientists discovered that jew polio vaccine causes sterility, AIDS, hypoglycemia and probabaly bed-wetting. Joos, jooos, jooooos, I tell you! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-11-07 19:53 |
| #14 Your kids can learn this and other interesting facts for a mere $42,000 per year. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-11-07 19:44 |
| #13 Complete list of Islamic scientific firsts below... |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-11-07 18:44 |
| #12 This is part and parcel of oislam's cultural imperialism; and in EUrabia, this version of History, western civilization owing everything to isla, will soon become official, as it is already incorporated at least in spirit in schoolbooks, and is internalized by dhimmis (the whole idea of "they taught us to wash", for example). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-11-07 18:13 |
| #11 That mantle should be properly fitted to Columbia President, Teacher's College founder, Nobel Laureate, fascist sympathiser and anti-semite Nicholas Murray Butler |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-07 18:07 |
| #10 Nice to know that Columbia U. has an Edward Said Jr. to carry on the mantle of faux scholarship now that the original has gone to have tea with Himmler. I'd check where George's mother had been sleeping around around the time he was born. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-11-07 17:48 |
| #9 Wikipedia contradicts the learned professor... History There follows a chronological list of recorded decimal writers. [edit] Decimal writers * c. 3500 - 2500 BC Elamites of Iran possibly used early forms of decimal system. [2] [3] * c. 2900 BC Egyptian hieroglyphs show counting in powers of 10 (1 million + 400,000 goats, etc.) – see Ifrah, below * c. 2600 BC Indus Valley Civilization, earliest known physical use of decimal fractions in ancient weight system: 1/20, 1/10, 1/5, 1/2. See Ancient Indus Valley weights and measures * c. 1400 BC Chinese writers show familiarity with the concept: for example, 547 is written 'Five hundred plus four decades plus seven of days' in some manuscripts * c. 1200 BC In ancient India, the Vedic text Yajur-Veda states the powers of 10, up to 1055 * c. 400 BC Pingala – develops the binary number system for Sanskrit prosody, with a clear mapping to the base-10 decimal system * c. 250 BC Archimedes writes the Sand Reckoner, which takes decimal calculation up to 1080,000,000,000,000,000 * c. 100–200 The Satkhandagama written in India – earliest use of decimal logarithms * c. 476–550 Aryabhata – uses an alphabetic cipher system for numbers that used zero * c. 598–670 Brahmagupta – explains the Hindu-Arabic numerals (modern number system) which uses decimal integers, negative integers, and zero * c. 780–850 Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī – first to expound on algorism outside India * c. 920–980 Abu'l Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi – earliest known direct mathematical treatment of decimal fractions. * c. 1300–1500 The Kerala School in South India – decimal floating point numbers * 1548/49–1620 Simon Stevin – author of De Thiende ('the tenth') * 1561–1613 Bartholemaeus Pitiscus – (possibly) decimal point notation. * 1550–1617 John Napier – use of decimal logarithms as a computational tool * 1925 Louis Charles Karpinski – The History of Arithmetic [1] * 1959 Werner Buchholz – Fingers or Fists? (The Choice of Decimal or Binary representation)[2] * 1974 Hermann Schmid – Decimal Computation[3] * 2000 Georges Ifrah – The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer[4] * 2003 Mike Cowlishaw – Decimal Floating-Point: Algorism for Computers[5]. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2007-11-07 17:36 |
| #8 Saliba is perhaps best-known outside the academy for his role in the recent controversy surrounding Columbia's Near Eastern studies department. He was featured in a recent documentary, "Columbia Unbecoming," which accused him and other Columbia professors of presenting anti-Israel viewpoints in their classes and blocking the expression of dissenting opinions. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-11-07 17:22 |
| #7 Heard this this crap before. Anything invented in that part of the world happened despite islam. If Europe had not had the plague they would have been worlds ahead of the muzzies. Not only that but ALL the math he talks about had already been invented in south America. Typical BS and coming from a Columbia I'm not surpised. Basically he's a liar and probable lived in Rome NY at one time. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-11-07 17:13 |
| #6 This is disgusting. This turd is a professor at an Ivy League college and he can say this crap? Is he also a truther? The only thing the Muzzies ever did was to maintain that which others developed. The Dhimmis did all the work or they found it out when they conquered someone. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-11-07 17:06 |
| #5 Send him to talk to the faculty in the Russian Department. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-11-07 17:04 |
| #4 I'm pretty sure someone in the western world would have come up with decimal fractions eventually, thank you very much. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-11-07 16:57 |
| #3 Take that back you filthy hand-to-ass wiping sons on camels and pigs. Mother Russia invented everything! |
| Posted by: Chekov 2007-11-07 16:40 |
| #2 Yes, but "all your base are belong to us". Or even better, to the Japanese. |
| Posted by: Ulaising Jones3412 2007-11-07 16:17 |
| #1 Astronomy, for instance, only insofar as it is used to tell when the moon is new. Or a little past. All other uses are haram. And they ganked zero from the Hindus, I believe. And as I wrote over at Jeff Goldstein's place: we have Chuck Norris. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-11-07 16:07 |