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Also, I've heard the theory (I don't know if it's true) that while Chinese invented porcelain and used it for containers (cups, plates, etc), Europeans never di
by tomp 12y ago
Also, I've heard the theory (I don't know if it's true) that while Chinese invented porcelain and used it for containers (cups, plates, etc), Europeans never did, and ended up inventing glass instead (and windows, microscopes, telescopes, ...).
- blawson 12y agoThey talk about this on the British panel show Qi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0OhXxx7cQg&ab_channel=solipsism1000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0OhXxx7cQg&ab_channel=solip...
- thret 12y agoHuh, I just read this theory yesterday in Nation by Terry Pratchett. I'm going back and reading the few books of his I missed.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoThe Road Not Taken... http://pastebin.com/aJQfubrK http://pastebin.com/aJQfubrK
- pjmlp 12y agoTelescopes were brought into Europe by Arabs living in what was then Iberia, Sicily and a few other places. As well as many farming new technologies like irrigation for example.
- testrun 12y agoNot quite - http://www.space.com/21950-who-invented-the-telescope.html http://www.space.com/21950-who-invented-the-telescope.html.
- pjmlp 12y agoOk, it seems I got that wrong. However I was right remembering that Arabs had something to do with optics, as the base findings trace back to Ibn al-Haytham (965). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhaze http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhaze Also just as general information for anyone curious about it, in the process I've found out a list of Arab inventions. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-invent...