Atlas Shrugs: Con job at the Museum: "Ingenious Innovations: Islamic Science Rediscovered."

* Algebra actually originated among Hindus in India, not among Muslims.

* "Camera" is not at all an Arabic word. It was derived from the Late Latin camera, from Latin, arched roof, from Greek kamara, vault.

*The first Arabic-language medical treatise was written by a Christian priest and translated into Arabic by a Jewish doctor in 683. The first was founded at Gundeshapur in Persia- by Assyrian … [More]