Translations: How Europe discovered science

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• 作者：Pietro Greco
• 关键词：Science ; Europe ; Origins ; Translations ; Islamic science ; Toledo ; Palermo ; Hellenistic science
• 刊名：Lettera Matematica
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：4
• 期：2
• 页码：105-110
• 全文大小：493 KB
• 刊物主题：Mathematics, general; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Mathematical Methods in Physics; Applications of Mathematics; History of Mathematical Sciences; History of Science;
• 出版者：Springer Milan
• ISSN：2281-5937
• 卷排序：4

文摘

Europe was the last of the contiguous continents to discover science. The first creative European mathematician was Leonardo Fibonacci, born in the twelfth century. Even Euclid was first translated into Latin, and thus made available to learned people in Western Europe only in the same twelfth century. The Western part of Europe had indeed long ignored not just geometry, but the whole of ancient science. The “discovery” of science happened mainly through a systematic work of translation of Arabic texts, especially in Toledo, Spain, again beginning in the twelfth century. Arabs themselves had translated most texts by Hellenistic scientists from Greek and many Indian texts from Hindi. Thus, Europe discovered science through Islam.