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Lux Aeterna's avatar

It will take a very long time for the world to be deprogrammed from the "western" exceptionalism in every field and that project in itself needs a massive revision of every science, but first and foremost of the heavily redacted and rewritten history of humanity.

Case in point 1 - the reference of Ptolemy as "Greek/Egyptian", when in fact he was of Macedonian origin and descent (see Demosthenes' speeches known as "Philippics": https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0014,009:31)

Case in point 2 - the reference of the language in which the ancient European texts are written as "Greek", which couldn't be further from the truth. In scientific circles, this language is called "koine" and has but vague similarities with both ancient and (moreso) modern Greek languages. Koine was simply put an esperanto language created in the time of Alexander of Macedon's world-stretching empire, as lingua franca, a means of communication between the various peoples which inhabited the wide-stretching Macedonian project of "uniting the known world" (even Shitipedia says so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek).

The "grecification" of Koine is another European (German) project of rewriting history to better suit the "western" needs. If you want to go deeper in that rabbithole, I suggest you do your research on the "romantic" historian Johann Gustav Droysen and his school of "Historism"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gustav_Droysen). Droysen was financed, propelled and used by European (German/ "Holy Roman") monarchies to widely falsify history in their own political ends of "uniting the European/Western world" through attibuting a common "hellenistic" (itself being a false attibute portending to "greek") roots. (Also see: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281905680_What_is_History_for_Johann_Gustav_Droysen_and_the_Functions_of_Historiography)

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Pietro Wislon's avatar

I first read about Joseph Needham in the Whole Earth Catalogue. Then ran into him later in life in Simon Winchester's " The Man Who Loved China. " A great read.

Tne Needham Institute in Cambridge UK is on my bucket list.

https://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/index.html

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