Yes. But we stopped studying the Greeks for a long time and had no paper. So we could not distribute copies of Greek works until paper was introduced here, and

Yes. But we stopped studying the Greeks for a long time and had no paper. So we could not distribute copies of Greek works until paper was introduced here, and until we had those copies. That trend, that lasted a long time, ended with the help of the Islamic civilization influence, with the arrival of paper and translated copies of the works you are talking about. They were studying them. We were not. Our copies come from them, and the technology to distribute those copies also comes from them. Our scientific tradition is a direct continuation of theirs, as they are the first advisors to the first doctors in the West. https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/