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They did. They preserved authorship in all their works. Their additions were in the form of footnotes, comments and original works. They translated works of Pt
by partycoder 10y ago
They did. They preserved authorship in all their works.
Their additions were in the form of footnotes, comments and original works.
They translated works of Ptolomy, Euclid, Archimedes, Aristotle, Galen for us.
They also produced very important works in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, etc.
I challenge you to find translators for those languages in Medieval Europe when literacy rate was less than 1%. Their contributions were objectively important and critical.
- mason240 10y ago>I challenge you to find translators for those languages in Medieval Europe This is the Western European point of view I referenced in my other comment. These works were also being preserved in Latin and Greek in Constantinople for the entire duration of the Middle Ages in Western Europe and the rise and fall of the Golden Islamic Age.
- partycoder 10y agoThe ones that made it to Oxford and Paris first came from Toledo. Albert Magnus and his pupil Thomas Aquinas studied from Aristotle translations made in Toledo. Nicolaus Copernicus studied from Ptolomy books translated in Toledo. Roger Bacon studied from translations made in Toledo. So, stop trying to imply that translations came from Byzantium and not Al-Andalus.