History of Science
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Thread on Arab Science Scientific traditions developed in Arabic transformed Greek tradition, giving rise to theories and fields of inquiry that were beyond the wildest imaginatio...
1/n: One way to think about indigenous "science" is that indigenous societies were often very good at technology (eg. the Aleut Baidarka) but because they lacked a good scientific...
Concepts describing refraction&dispersion of light into its component colors -credited to Isaac Newton- were described 700yrs earlier by Ibn Al-Haytham, an Iconic figure in Science...
In the 1600s there were two camps of geologists: The โflood geologistsโ whose starting point was that the Earth was 6,000 years old and therefore that wonders like sea shell foss...
