The common view is that modern science was invented and great scientific discoveries in West.
James Poskett challenges this view.
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That was fun.
I wasnât familiar with Poskett, looks to be a real gem.
Iâve already ordered his book and hope he makes good on this future plans.
Thanks Morgan
Iâve been distracted a lot this week.
I learned of the Islamic Golden Age years ago, Iâll see if I can dig up that source. I might have got a little too enamored with that, thinking it was the ârealâ source of the scientific revolution, but still, itâs important that we throw off these old prejudices, that somehow science came out of nowhere in Europe, because Europeans are intellectually superior.
I think this is the series i saw. You might have to fish around to get all the episodes.
Science and Islam Science and Islam (TV series) - Google Search
Sounds like a straw man argument. No one in academia denies that science has been done in other parts of the world. However, that doesnât change the fact is modern science is a Western enterprise.
Apparently youâve never met anyone who claims Europeans invented science because of their intellectual superiority. I find it quite common. Almost nonexistent are those who can give an explanation of why it arose as it did.
As an easy example, ask people what Arabic numbers are.
How do you know that?
Itâs in any book covering world history. The consensus is that every civilization of note has used science and contributed to scientific progress.
Were it only so.
Besides the obvious that archeologists and scholars have been making amazing new discoveries that keep teaching us more, and often putting older knowledge into a new light, so âany bookâ isnâtâ something to start a discussion on, more like a dare or something. 
September 2014
just sayân 
Iâve heard those people and they are historically illiterate. They arenât the history professors, though. But the fact is Europeans have been intellectually superior for the last few centuries.
I was hoping you would go off topic.
I would not use âintellectually superiorâ
Now, even in modern times, extra European people have contributed.
An exemple:
[Srinivasa Ramanujan - Wikipedia]
[List of Indian mathematicians - Wikipedia]
Without really knowing the topic, it took me the time of typing " Indian mathematicians " in my search bar
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A lot of the articles you posted show the Xian Reich agenda, which many Repugs are part of. The agenda is nothing more than control over everyone who isnât a white male, preferably a rich white male and to pump out misinformation, especially in schools. Basically itâs the Xian version of Sharia Law as the goal.
Whatâs off topic? Pointing out your flippant remark is inaccurate and that many books donât tell the story, in fact many books do what they can to dismiss the interconnected nature of human development of the growth of knowledge.
Then you drop something idiotic like this.
How many of those bright minds in Europe of the past centuries, werenât actually of European origin, schmatty pant? You really should try to get outside your comfort zone, try reading the book, or watch a little quality YouTube - âJames Poskettâ
None of your links have anything to do with the history of science. And the school officials who want to teach a sanitized version of slavery are a fringe group.
I canât think of any European scientist of note who was not actually European. Closest thing to that idea might be Jews like Einstein â who are well represented in European science, because they are a mixed ethnicity with Near Eastern and European DNA. But labeling Einstein as non-European would call for a huge amount of hair splitting.
It is worth pointing out there are groups like Black nationalists and their clownish White left-wing keepers who try to claim that big European names from the past were not White â Beethoven is a popular one â but these claims can be easily refuted.
True, although these Indians came to Europe to work because thatâs where the modern scientific enterprise exists. They had little opportunity utilize their talents in Asia.
Oh, got me on that. No science. GOP already managed to trash science, no need to address it at all anymore.
Of course âyouâ canât, because it doesnât seem like youâre interested in finding out,
so of course you canât think if anything youâve not allowed yourself to be exposed to.
No one is arguing that there arenât extremist crazies on all sides, always have been, but the Crazies have never captured a third of the country and one of our two political parties, the way they have these days, thanks to internet crazy making, and loss of interest in practicing critical thinking skills.
Then get some education you can start with âHorizonsâ
What really gets me about you and your attitude seems depend on clinging to some notions of American Exceptionalism - never realizing, let alone appreciating that Americans became great, first and foremost because of the landmass we discovered and took over. Plus, it took in people from all over the world, the great American Melting Pot. Diversity is life and progress.
Guess I got lucky, I didnât grow up in a sterile household where Saturday morning cartoons was the height of my world exposure and intellectual experience. We (siblings) were exposed to the world, in those early years the stand out for me was the multicolumn time line: Kulturfahrplan, printed in old German even, fascinated the heck out of me and occasionally my mom would explain this or that section. Though I couldnât really read it, the way it had the timeline laid out chronological and in columns representing specific human endeavors, Politics, Science, Military, Music, Literature, ? - it was perfectly named, Culture Road Map, because it was sort of laid out that way, just looking at it closely informed about the interwoven nature of human development.
Counting recent scientists is not what the video is about. No one is born thinking in the way thatâs required to publish and pass peer review. Thatâs why it took thousands of years for us to develop the methods. The âthingâ about âscienceâ is that itâs not like agriculture or inventing gunpowder, itâs a process, a way of approaching problems. Itâs not something that one nation can see others doing and just adopt it. I put up something recently about why that is, but Iâll apply it here.
After thousands of years of discoveries, and the spread of information, Europe was in a position to adopt of all of that knowledge and process from around the world. The Islamic world had done a lot of the work of gathering it, but then the Mongols burned their cities. Science needs a protected environment, that is, there needs to be a dominant military and government that can fund it. A degree of luck was involved with Europe coming out of its dark age just as the globalization was bringing these forces together.
Unlucky for the rest of the world is that they decided to hide the history of how they gained much of this information, and claim the military superiority was due to their intellectual superiority. They turned India into a company, literally, and did not invest in a university system there, because they had everyone believing the brown people werenât smart enough to bother. The book âThe Boy Who Knew Infinityâ is a great story about how it was finally recognized that isnât true, and that we should spread our knowledge, not hoard it. We should look for genius everywhere and nurture it.
Iâve read enough history to know what is bullcrap and what is legitimate history, so I donât need to expose myself to alternate theories.
I thought we were talking about history of science.
We are. 1492 is one point in history that they discuss. It goes with my post. That the circumstances of how cultures were conquered led to the environment for science to flourish, rather than some genetic superiority leading to science, and science leading to conquering.