That's one of the reasons so much of what we've come to think of as Western science and mathematics and engineering was really worked out in the first few centuries of the Common Era by the Persians and the Arabs and the Turks.
Dette er en af grundene til, at så meget, som vi betragter som vestlig videnskab, matematik og teknologi, faktisk blev udviklet i løbet af vores tidsregnings første århundreder af perserne, araberne og tyrkerne.