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Thanks for the heads up Gary.
I watched this program and although interesting, it started to lose me when they chose the wording for the Sun centred solar system as being the 'currently accepted' model. I stuck with it but had to skip to the sections that actually dealt with Astronomy.
Without doubt, while the Western world (read as 'Christian') was turning itself inside out leaving Science in limbo, the Islamic nations kept Science ticking over. My understanding is that a large amount of their knowledge was translated from Greek texts into their own language. It's a bit of a stretch to think that the Islamic world advanced Astronomy in any meaningful sense. Astronomy was more of a tool used to mark timings for religious events.
The narrative also stated that it would have been 'impossible' for Copernicus and others to have advanced Astronomy without the efforts of Islamic Astronomers and Mathematicians. Once again, this is a big claim that needed to be backed up. In my opinion is wasn't.
Did anyone else watch this show? What did you think of it?
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