>>14243310>Intellectually dishonest as expected.What a joke, you haven't made a single honest statement since you entered this thread, you got BTFO by a fact dump and now you're just continuing to lie.
>al-jabr is not a rehash of ArithmaticaI never said this. At all.
>distilling for specific medicinal/chemical propertiesLet's break this down your alcohol claim, mostly from wikipedia entry on it:
>Distillation is 3000 years old >Aristotle already experimented with Aqua Vitae in his time 300 BC>Work on distilling other non-alcoholic liquids continued in early Byzantine Egypt under Zosimus of Panopolis in the 3rd century AD>Chinese and Indians also learned how to distill alcoholic beverages during this time to concentrate the alcohol>Arabian alchemists found a method to increase volatility of wine by adding salt in the 9th century AD>The first fractional distillation for concentrating alcohol with _repeated_ distillation was by Taddeo Alderotti (1223–1296 AD) who achieved 90% purity>Thermodynamics invented by Otto von Guericke who in 1650 AD>Anthony Perrier developed one of the first continuous stills in 1822 AD>Chemical structure and synthetic ethanol is deduced by Faraday in 1825 AD>Chemical Engineering, distillation columns, reflux distillation, McCabe–Thiele method 20th century ADSo, yes, I consider adding salt a minor endeavour, wouldn't you if you weren't biased? The Sumerians first invented it for consumption, the Greeks first played with it and experimented with it, the Arabs found another way to make wine more volatile, the Italians first isolated it, the French first produced it continuously, the Germans and Americans invented the most modern and sophisticated method of distilling.
>zero knowledge of Islamic inventions so he just assumes they kept on rehashing the same greek texts for one thousand yearsI have literally displayed more knowledge than you from the start. In fact I mentioned Islamic contributions that you had missed.
