Originally Posted by
jafar00
If it wasn't for Muslims advancing scientific knowledge, you wouldn't have things like cameras, hospitals or modern surgery, antiseptics, anaesthesia, vaccination, soap and regular bathing, advances in Astronomy (some stars even have arabic names like Deneb, Algol, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Aldebran ....), Algebra, Coffee, Chess, Irrigation, valves and pistons in engines, Windmills, numbers, cryptology, cheques, compasses, braille, in 852 a Muslim made a hang glider that flew for several minutes before he crashed and hurt himself, modern chemistry, the Earth being round........