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- Pre-Renaissance Science 200AD - 1400AD
- Physics dominated by Aristotle's thinking:
- Perfect perpetual motion in heavens; tendency to come to rest for objects on earth
- “Dark Ages” in Europe
- “Golden Age” of Islam
- Preserved heritage of Classic Greek Science Al-Khawarizmi, mathematician and astronomer whose major works introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics.
- Great scientists such as Ibn al-Haytham who discovered laws of optics (credited by Powers for the scientific method), and Ibn Sina who wrote great works on medicine and other fields