I never knew that all of these Muslim scientists have done a lot of work even before the ones who we have been told got there
The general knowledge of people is that an ordinary white man pulled everything up and all without knowing that it started from some certain people
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Many Christians and Jews collaborated with Muslims during The Golden Age of Islam from 750-1258. Some outstanding Christians who will be featured in a later article traveled to study with the Muslims and brought the knowledge back to their countries. That knowledge provided the foundation centuries later for the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and Computer Revolution.
The site at: https://www.islamicity.org/77972/the-scientist-pope/ shows that the book The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages explains that Gerbert of Aurillac, a professor at a cathedral school in France, was the first Christian known to teach math using Arabic numerals....All of this science Gerbert learned as a youth living on the border of Islamic Spain — then an extraordinarily tolerant culture in which learning was prized. In the caliph’s library in Cordoba were 40,000 books. Gerbert’s French monastery owned fewer than 400. Many of the caliph’s books came from Baghdad, known for its House of Wisdom, where for 200 years works of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and medicine had been translated from Greek and Persian and Hindu and further developed by Islamic scholars.
In the world Gerbert knew, Arabic was the language of science. Much of what Gerbert taught at his cathedral school in France, for example, was derived from the works of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, a Persian scientist in Baghdad’s House of Wisdom.....Al-Khwarizmi’s books quickly reached Islamic Spain—perhaps even before his death in about 850. There, during Gerbert’s lifetime, a hundred years later, Al-Khwarizmi’s algebra and his treatise on the astrolabe were among the science books translated from Arabic into Latin through the combined efforts of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars.
Gerbert of Aurillac served as Pope Sylvester II from 999 to 1003 and was known as " The Scientist Pope".
However, during the Renaissance starting around the 12th century, the "Humanists" worked to erase the names of all these amazing Muslim scientists from history. That will be covered in an article later.