...reece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern... ...bols of shape with the alphabet‘s symbols of sound. For millennia, most historians tended to credit the Phoenicians with inventing the first phone... ...ined the block printing process as early as the seventh century, but most historians concede that Feng Tao (882–954) was the ―Eastern Father of Prin... ...Legend and myth tended to compete with hard-earned knowledge. Many modern historians decry the idea that conditions were so bad that progress stopped... ...ease in the number of liberal arts colleges throughout the world. Many historians title this period of cultural and intellectual revival the Carol... ...d by any row with no pebble at the active end of the rod. Because the Hindu spiritual world came out of nothingness, it seems natural that Hindu... ...bylonians‘ numbering process. For certain, our word ―zero‖ stems from its Hindu roots. As noted earlier, Islam created an empire that stretched fr... ... absorb the wisdom of that culture, which did not fear the void. The Hindus had figured out how to use their new numeral system for fancy tricks... ...ized the nature of science. Arabs appropriated this simple system from Hindu mathematicians and then carried it to the West. By the time this ...

...nourish the Renaissance. -- 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest Ancient Greece’s fear of the void blocked the advance of science for millennia, but Hindus in India and the Arabs unveil the numerical tools needed for modern science to emerge in the West. -- 12. Invaders from the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language ...