Radio Free Trumpistan on Nostr: Slight correction there, Steph--Sir Newton defined the methodology FOR EUROPE. The ...

Slight correction there, Steph--Sir Newton defined the methodology FOR EUROPE. The aforementioned enlightened Arabs were able to salvage quite a bit of the knowledge contained in the Christian-razed Alexandria Library, translated that into Arabic, and via that was able to convey those contents to Europe eventually; a substantial amount of that knowledge was copied and stored in Cordova, Spain, and a great deal of that was what passed for astronomy in ancient Greece, as well as medical knowledge which proved to be essential to surviving the plagues of the Dark Ages.