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Title: Gods in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Culture from the Ancients to the Renaissance by Allan Chapman ISBN: 0-7522-6164-9 Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $34.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: It can't be right!
Comment: Hello,
...we read from the Author De Lacy O'Leary, D.D. in his book titled "How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs"
How through the many schools the "Nestorians" (Assyrian Church of the East) founded, including the Schools at Edessa, Nisibis, and Jundi-Shapur, the Greek works were translated into Syriac for use in the curriculums. These works included Theophania, Martyrs of Palestine, and Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius, and many others

In the first place Hibha [a Nestorian-Assyrian] had introduced the Aristotelian logic to illustrate and explain the theological teaching of Theodore, of Mopseustia, and that logic remained permanently the necessary introduction to the theological study in all Nestorian education. Ultimately it was the Aristotelian logic which, with the Greek medical, astronomical, and mathematical writers, was passed on to the Arabs

So the point is that it was through those Assyrian Christian Schools that Greek sciences was passed to the Arabs, and the truly inheritors of the science mace in Middle East should have been mentioned as the Assyrians and not the Arabs.

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Rating: 5
Summary: The World's Best Teacher
Comment: From a student who studied under Dr. Allan Chapman, this book does equal justice to the lectures he gave while studying at Oxford University. His writing pulls into a deep emotional state which makes it hard to put the book down.