"Epicycles": How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 11:01:42 MST

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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/social/30ISLA.html?todaysheadlines=&pagewanted=print

This is an interesting article describing how for a long time the Islamic
world was the center of science and learning, and how it probably fueled
the renaissance.

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Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/

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