POINT OF VIEW 16-01-18

Origin of modern science:

From Pre-Babylonian Mesopotamia through the Indus culture and then via Islam to the West!

I. Muylle

1. Introduction:

We know that the invasion of the Akkadians in the Sumerian Mesopotamian culture with its transition from a pictographically to a pre-phonetic script, with enormous political, social, organisational and administrational problems (cf. the tower of Babel problems) what generated an important flight of intelligence to China and the Indus valley, where as a result a very high cultural level was reached.

2 The Indo-Germans
When the Indo-Germans also overwhelmed and conquered the Indus culture, the original Indus inhabitants were reduced to "untouchables". Yet much of the knowledge and achievements were preserved, taken over and integrated into Indian culture. These Mesopotamian / Indus Valley knowledge achievements, especially in the domains of astronomy, mathematics and medicine, were taken over and included in the Islamic - Indian culture.

3 The Islamic golden age
In the Islamic golden age, these results were further developed and brought to a very high level. Ultimately, we see that during the Western Middle Ages these developments penetrated, shaped and fertilized cultural / political / scientific thinking in Western Europe. From Western Europe, this scientific, cultural, political vision will be spread all over the world (see Vandamme F. 2006, Political Philosophy).

4 Transfer of knowledge
In concrete terms, we think here, among other things, of the transfer from the Mesopotamian / Indus culture into the Islamic culture of the use of null (zero), the decimal system, the development of algebra, the development and use of algorithms, sinuses, the introduction of the positioning through the use of the meridians, the introduction of the prime meridian, the highly advanced astronomy and not to forget the important new approach to medicine and pharmacology