The Non-Western Roots of Science

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK, December 1, 2002: This very interesting review in the New York Times is of “Lost Discoveries,” a book which describes how the West’s history of science tends to ignore the contributions of the East. Some examples: The author “has created a very neat chronicle — and a timely reminder — of how much of the foundation of modern scientific thought and technological development was built by the mostly overlooked contributions of Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Polynesians and Mesoamericans. …. “The ancient Indians, long before Copernicus, knew that the Earth revolved around the sun and, a thousand years before Kepler, knew that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.”