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Re: Benetnasch and Alkaid revisited
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Apr 6, 09:39 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Apr 6, 09:39 +1000
Even if this is true, still a significant contribution. Among other useful bequeaths is the system of numbers we use (that they in turn may have adapted from Hindu numerals). Imagine the modern world trying to run on Roman numerals and no zero. So, thanks in no small part to the Islamic world the European world was able to greatly change itself post-Reformation, eventually giving us western culture as we know it now, for better or ill. In some ways as a reaction to this (?) a rather vocal and powerful and very visible minority within the Islamic world seems determined to drag all into a kind of idealized Islamic pre-Reformation world that almost never existed there before. Just rather ironic... > From: Bill > Some I know would argue they were little more than bank vaults for the > ancients work.