Reply #27: I don't see you naming one before either. [View All]

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And I wasn't being pissy. I'm sorry if you read that. I was just getting exasperated defending the fact that I thought most of the stuff I listed came from the greeks, when the author made it sound like it came from the muslim world. *SHHHEEESSSHH*

Medicine

Imhotep is credited with being the founder<10><11><12> of medicine and with being the author of a medical treatise remarkable for being devoid of magical thinking, the so-called Edwin Smith papyrus containing anatomical observations, ailments, and cures. The surviving papyrus was probably written around 1700 BC but may be a copy of texts a thousand years older. This attribution of authorship is speculative, however.<13>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep

Your right, as far as this goes, but I still think the Greeks, while they did not invent it, gave it more prominence in their world, and so people remember that.

Christoper Columbus didn't discover the "new world", but no one in Europe remembers the first few times it was "found", so he gets the credit.