Anonymous asked:
Eyooo I'm an astrophysics student in the U.K.!!! everything hurts my brain! Also I just wanted to say so many people clump religion under how Christianity treated scientific research but they fail to recall the Islamic golden age, literally massive libraries containing scientific knowledge and this open approach to scientific ideas, as a Muslim, if really impacted my decisions of going into the science field. And a lot of people don't know that European science was based off of Islamic science
Yes! The ‘dark ages’ is a purely European term. During the European dark ages, eastern society, especially middle eastern societies, were making incredible strides in the sciences. Most of what we consider ‘European discoveries’ in astronomy actually come from middle eastern or Chinese discoveries.
