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28 points

So he translated the work of Indian mathematicians and got all the credit? Sounds legit.

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The Persians, Muslims, Arabs kept knowledge and science that would have been lost during the dark ages.

If it wasn’t for their continued work in maths and sciences centuries would.have been lost / wasted.

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Lost because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge. So very nice of them.

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because they murdered and destroyed the very civilization that created said knowledge

What are you talking about?

Are you blaming the collapse of the Roman Empire and the ensuing Dark Ages on Muslims? (A religion that didn’t even exist yet at the start of the Dark Ages.)

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Downvotes show that people here don’t know that even in 9th century a large part of the ME’s population was Christian dhimmis. Coptic, Assyrian, Armenian, Nestorian. “Dhimmi” means they couldn’t bear arms and had to pay “protection tax”, and also a “Muslim robbing a dhimmi” situation was usually resolved in favor of the Muslim.

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20 points

Built off it, rather than copied it. That’s par for the course in most science.

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12 points

Good scientists copy, great scientists steal.

Just ask Tesla Edison!

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Edison is known as a businessman, not as a scientist though.

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True but then again that’s the point: he stole some fame as a scientist. Or at least as an “inventor”.

Great businessmen always steal, they don’t have the ethics to do actual work

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I mean Fibonacci did more or less the same thing to his work a few centuries later, so fair play I guess.

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