This question has always been on my mind:
Why did modern science and mathematics essentially develop in Europe...
Despite the fact that the Arabic World, China, and possibly India were MORE advanced than Europe for centuries in scientific and mathematical thought, heck it was the Arabs that re-introduced Greek and Roman texts to the Europeans that sparked the Renaissance but it seems at that moment Europe started to take over in terms of science while Arabic science and other civilizations started to decline...
I think many would see Galileo as being the first truly modern scientist (Copernicus and Kepler were great but they had ideas that many Arab scientists still had)
It wasn't really until Galileo and then Newton, where Europe started to completely out-distance the whole world in science...and then the gap just got wider in the 17th,18th,19th centuries
Why did modern science and mathematics essentially develop in Europe...
Despite the fact that the Arabic World, China, and possibly India were MORE advanced than Europe for centuries in scientific and mathematical thought, heck it was the Arabs that re-introduced Greek and Roman texts to the Europeans that sparked the Renaissance but it seems at that moment Europe started to take over in terms of science while Arabic science and other civilizations started to decline...
I think many would see Galileo as being the first truly modern scientist (Copernicus and Kepler were great but they had ideas that many Arab scientists still had)
It wasn't really until Galileo and then Newton, where Europe started to completely out-distance the whole world in science...and then the gap just got wider in the 17th,18th,19th centuries