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If a tree falls in the forest, but no Europeans / Christians heard it, does it really matter? Yes. Yes it does.

• throw0101a 4y ago
  Really? So Ibn al-Nafis discovered pulmonary circulation first: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world#Medical_contributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_the_medieval_Islam... What difference did his discovery make in the development of medicine? Who built on it? Which therapies were invented? If his writings sat on a shelf, read by no one, why did they matter? Contrast that with the various works from the Muslim world on optics that did contribute the building of understanding in the greater world.
  • blowski 4y ago
    You link a page that mentions maybe 100 significant medieval Islamic researchers and innovations that had a huge impact on the world of medicine. But you pick out the only one described as having "limited impact on contemporaries" as evidence that it was all a waste of time?