Islamic contributions to Medieval Europe

mainly because they never wanted their offspring to know what Muslims have contributed to their advancement and just wanted to show the European superiority. After the industrialization, secularization started to exist in Europe. After these events Muslim inventions were rare. Europe wanted to strip itself of their past dark ages from the history and also wanted to rise fresh. With roughly 1.6 billion Muslim in the world today, only two have won Nobel Prize in science.…

mathematicians were the ones who developed the decimal number system and invented algebra and trigonometry. In the realm of medicine Muslim physicians knew about blood circulation long before anyone else in Europe. They were able to figure out how to treat eye impairment this was done 1000 years before anyone in Europe. As for science many important discoveries were made in optics and the nature of light. Science plays a big part in Western society. Many scientific roots go back to what the…

What was the role of the Catholic Church and religion in medieval life? Which institutions and events were the most significant? Why? The Catholic Church and religion dominated the lives of people of the medieval period because they had staunch believe that God, heaven and Hell all existed staunch. In the medieval age, the fall of Rome resulted in the church growth in power as they took the role of leadership and the distribution of food to the needed. The church was largely a spiritual…

The renaissance is renowned to be a popular cultural movement in Europe. Conversely the success of the popular Renaissance would not be as we know it if weren’t for outside influences and contributions made before, and during that time period. The revival or “rebirth” of the era did not only occur within Europe, but other parts of the world were also thriving and flourishing. This essay reasons for Renaissance as a global phenomenon, where during an equivalent time period other nations flowered…

This book offers a historical and debatably thoughts on medieval armed forces technology. Moreover, the second edition is continuous of the first printed in 1992, the book has new developments by historians and non-historians that had test primitive weapons and armor. Kelly DeVries collaborated with Robert Smith and this interpretation of technology has open additional roads to research with new images, as well as building and installation of the machinery. The Middle Ages have influenced…

The middle ages, which was also known as the dark ages for most of Europe, was a time when mathematics very under-developed and slow due to the Roman Empire and it’s hold that they had on mathematics. This was the case until the Renaissance Era. The Roman Empire flourished until about the 5th century. The decline of the Roman Empire created a new awakening for mathematics. Mathematics around the world began to flourish and develop again. For majority of the world, mathematics was used for…

The Apology of Patriarch Timothy of Baghdad before the Caliph Mahdi offers a view into Christian-Islamic relation before a time of tension. Timothy notes, “he is a loveable man, and loves also learning when he finds it in other people, and on this account he directed against me the weight of his objections, whenever necessary. He began to address me…

measles and smallpox. They had also done many successful surgeries such as, cesarean sections and amputation, which contributed all the medicinal society. Another development of Islamic world was the technology, such as papermaking, hydraulics, and mechanical engineering. The technique of papermaking was spread to Europe from Islamic world. More than any, the improvement of hydraulics and mechanical engineering had enhanced human society by reducing their…

Pappus, attempted to consolidate established knowledge of geometry along with some of his own contributions. The most interesting contribution seems to be a theorem about making a solid by the revolution of a plane area (i.e. moving a 2D shape around an axis to make a 3D shape). Hypatia became the first prominent female mathematician of Ancient Greece and also a scholar…

Introduction The evolution of mankind from the medieval times to the current ‘science and technology age’ has allowed mankind to evolve and adapt to nature well. In fact, the advent of science has propelled mankind forward to where he is today, something that was considered unimaginable and unattainable hundreds and thousands of years back. Albert Einstein once said “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” So I question, what is Science? Before I develop my…