Is Science Western with Prof. Greg Dawes 

Prof. Dawes joins me to discuss whether or not science should be considered 'western' as we note multiple instances of scientific advancements which predate and influence European ideas, which then develops (borrowed from the Arabs?) a rigorous experimental methodology and exports it globally.
As Greg and I discuss some fairly obscure topics, which he points out near the end, here are a handful of references of topics we covered:
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James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed (ep 2) on the transmission of knowledge and the translators:
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