Page 9 - Cognition and Thinking of the history of Science and Technology

Science means exchanges

• In order to develop, science needs
exchanges. From the very Ancient
times scientists learned from others
in other places and civilisations.

• Ancient Greek astronomers travelled
in Babylonia and Egypt to seek for
data.

• Ideas and instruments travel too. The
Arab world discovered Greek science
from the texts already translated in
Syrian. Arab scholars ordered copies

of Greek manuscripts. Due to these
orders a copying industry flourished
in Byzantium that lead to a renewal
called first Byzantine Humanism.

• During the wars between Byzantium
and the Arabs, mathematicians,
astronomers and doctors circulated
between the two civilisations.

• During the various European wars of Byzantine astrolabe of Islamic tradition
the Modern period, scientists
continued to exchange. Museum of Brescia, Italy