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Humanity does seem to have a predilection to devoting its brightest minds to unproductive activities. How much better would the world be today if the hot job of
by edoloughlin 16y ago
Humanity does seem to have a predilection to devoting its brightest minds to unproductive activities. How much better would the world be today if the hot job of early medieval times was medicine instead of producing manuscripts? Science instead of theology? Science instead of stock market analysis? Just repeating a pattern...
- Dn_Ab 16y agoThis post is not fair to history. First, many theologians of old were first rate thinkers. Although much of their work was practical (philosophy in this case heh) they made contributions to logic, physics and uhm philosophy. Perhaps you have heard of William of Ockham or Thomas Aquinas? As for manuscripts, this was before the printing press so making manuscripts was vital to knowledge spreading. Note that in this time Fibonacci and Copernicus lived. Finally, although things were slow in Europe, during this time the arabs, persians and indians layed the foundations of and invented some of the greatest inventions in the history of the universe including: positional decimal numbering, zero, and algebra. As well as furthering calculus, geometry, astronomy and number theory. Arabic medicine also maintained and made some contributions to the state of the art of greek and roman times. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_m... http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.html http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.htm...