proofs that astronomi was found by muslims and not by western people?

Answer 1

It's wonderful that Muslims were ahead of their time hundreds of years ago. That doesn't make up for the terrible problems in that community now. Let's look at the present and try to make it a lot better.

Answer 2

Although the Mesopotemians and Egyptians had astronomical knowledge (mainly observational astronomy) the ancient Greeks placed the foundation of Astronomy as a science. The Arabs used the knowledge of the Greeks, contributing a lot to astronomy. Western Europeans were involved with astronomy much later.

Answer 3

Easy question to answer..! There is *no* proof that muslims founded the science of astronomy before any other particular peoples. However, there's tons of proof that astronomy was a well-developed science long before the onset of islam in the 6th Century. Just one example -- 147 BC, the Greek Hipparchos developed the first star catalog, along with techniques for measuring stellar luminosities and distances.

Answer 4

Well, most visible stars have Arabic names rather than Greek names. That's proof that many pre-modern star catalogs were compiled by astronomers in Islamic nations.

However, Islam was not founded until 650 AD or so. Many Greek astronomical records come from the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. And there are Babylonian, Indian and Egyptian records even older. So it's pretty much a given muslims didn't found astronomy, although they did make a huge contribution later on.

Answer 5

What would it matter if it was?

Western people do not use "we discovered astronomy" to make out that they are superior to Muslims. The reason that Western people are superior to Muslims is that they do not believe that taking the lives of people of a different religion is a good thing to do, whereas the Muslim religion teaches that it is, and we see Muslims following this teaching.

Answer 6

I believe astronomy began before we were able to speak and, through the ages many societies led in their concepts of astronomy. I don't believe that only western societies suffered Dark Ages where religion took a strong hold and denied science.

Answer 7

Astronomy wasn't "found" by anyone - it was never lost.
Astronomy and related sciences were developed by many different ancient peoples around the world.
The Arab world had many noted astronomers, as did the Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Indian, Chinese, and western societies.
Every observation, theory, and book (regardless of where the astronomer was or what religious or political affiliation he had) was valuable to the development over the centuries to bring us to where we are today.

And Muhammed taught in the 7th century AD, which is many hundreds of years after the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Chinese, and Indian astronomers began.

Answer 8

Nope, astronomy was around before the Muslims came into existence in 6th century.
Astronomy was from India, Mesopotamia and Egypt (not to mention Stonehenge) thousands of years before then.

Answer 9

Bubbles: Nice job of plagiarism copying Lindajune's answer! I've reported you to Yahoo.

The most important contribution of Arabs to astronomy was in preserving the ancient Greek texts, which would have been totally lost if it weren't for Arab scholars. Ptolomy's great text on astronomy survived in the Arab translation Almagest, and most of our modern star names are directly from that source, so are in Arabic.

Answer 10

Astronomy was around long, long before Islam! All the ancient cultures noticed what was happening in the sky - it was like a big TV set, with only one channel.