I really enjoy your content but I'm having trouble understanding how the Muslims attained knowledge and instruments from the Greeks when their ancestors the Babylonians were some of the first astrologist???
@stargazerastro
4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much, well that is relatively easy to explain. Although Greek astronomy was based on the ideas and data of Mesopotamian astronomy, it went far beyond with a truly scientific interpretation of celestial phenomena and the development of special instruments. This is one reason why Arab scholars used the much more advanced Greek sources rather than the original Babylonian ones. Another was of a practical nature, since at that time many people knew Greek, but only a few were able to read Mesopotamian cuneiform.
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