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In his book, on how astronomy reached Europe:
“[…] Western Europe passed into the early Middle Ages, the torch of science was picked up by Muslim scholars, who furthered the arts of astronomy and mathematics. Circa 1100 AD this knowledge began to filter back into Europe, with translations of works from Arabic […]”
John Edward Huth
b. 1958
American physicist at Harvard University, author of a book on traditional navigation and wayfinding.
In Arabic
عندما مرّت أوروبا الغربيّة بالعصور الوسطى المبكّرة، التقط العلماءُ المسلمون شعلةَ العلم، وطوّروا فنونَ علم الفلك والرياضيّات. في نحو ١١٠٠م بدأت هذه المعرفة ترشح مرّةً أخرى إلى أوروبا مع ترجمة الأعمال من اللغتين العربيّة واليونانيّة.
Source
The Lost Art of Finding Our Way, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013
He wrote in English; the Arabic is Saad al-Din Kharfan's translation, which follows it. The opening and the end of the English sentence were not reached.
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