(October 30, 2014 at 4:52 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(October 30, 2014 at 4:37 pm)Chas Wrote: Umm, no. Not the camera, not the guitar; coffee? Ethiopia. Attributing any of theses things to Muslims is inconsequential. They have nothing to do with Islam. It's a big 'so what?'.
Wasn't Alhazan the first to describe camera obscura (and also proved that light travels in straight lines)? That's what I get from going by memory, I suppose.
From brief Googling, it looks like the Italians get the sixth string credit.
I agree with the 'so what'. It has no relevance to the topic at hand that I can discern. Reminds me of when the Soviets were known for claiming they invented everything (in fairness, they invented a lot of stuff) as though it meant communism was superior.
COFFEE :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#History
Quote:Historical transmission[edit]
The earliest credible evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century, in the Sufi Muslim monasteries around Mocha in Yemen.
Sweet history..
CAMERA :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera#History
Okay I was wrong about the camera but muslims DID make a huge contribution to the field in the past..
Quote:In the tenth century, the Arabic scholar Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) also wrote about observing a solar eclipse through a pinhole,[13] and he described how a sharper image could be produced by making the opening of the pinhole smaller.
The link below offers more "real" documented stuff very fantastic read also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_in_...vilization
By historical evidence, Muslims are awesome people. The dark ages weren't dark at all in the middle east to be honest.
Though now our dark ages begun.
