Here is part two of Fjordman’s essay on Islam and the Greek heritage. Part one is here. According to scholar Lynda Shaffer, “Francis Bacon (1561-1626), an early advocate of the empirical method, upon which the scientific revolution was based, attributed Western Europe’s early modern take-off to three things in particular: printing, the compass, and gunpowder. … Continue reading Fjordman: Islam, the Greeks and the Scientific Revolution, part 2