Translation of Euclid's commentaries, 1520
From the second half of the 9th century, thanks to Arab translations, the medieval West discovered the scientific works of the ancient Greeks, including Euclid's commentaries, shown here, which were translated around 1520. But the Arabs also contributed significantly to science themselves, for example by inventing algebra
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