It's not generally accurate that the developments which ultimately led to modern physics are exclusively European. Certainly the post-Renaissance work was prima

It's not generally accurate that the developments which ultimately led to modern physics are exclusively European. Certainly the post-Renaissance work was primarily performed by Europeans, because the Ottomans shut down their observatories [1] and the Qing Dynasty banned "foreign" mathematics [2]. Europe's major competitors had simply forfeited the race. Even so, the Japanese physicist Tomonaga shared the Nobel Prize for the development of QFT [5]. Prior to that, European advancements were heavily influenced by Islamic and Indian mathematics, such as the development of place-value numerals [3] and modern optics [4] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_observatory_of_Taqi_ad-Din https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_observatory_of_... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mathematics#Qing_dynasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mathematics#Qing_dynas... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu%E2%80%93Arabic_numeral_s... 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world#Optics\\ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_in_the_medieval_Islami... 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%27ichir%C5%8D_Tomonaga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%27ichir%C5%8D_Tomonaga