Actually, our number system is Arabic. Some of the earliest astronomers were Arabic. It's possible that an Arab astronomer posited the sun centric view of the solar system hundreds of years befor Galileo.
However, most of that knowledge was destroyed when the Library at Alexandria was burned...by fanatic Christians. European scholars had to rediscover most of that knowledge because of that act.
Just FYI.
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COTEP #719
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria
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