science have been eliminated from the text books.
During the Middle Ages there existed in the east The Golden Age of Islam.
Not only did it establish the principles of the scientific method but it developed the principles of mathematics as we know it today. Algorithm isn't a word, its the Latin name of the Islamic Mathematician who developed the principles.
If you go to the Wiki article on the "History of the Scientific Method" you will see that after the foundational work by Plato, Socrates and other Greek Philosophers there was an unbroken chain of Islamic philosophers who refined the methodology into what eventually becomes the Scientific Method as we know it today.
During the time of the Spanish Inquisition all of the known works of Plato and Socrates were burned in the Western libraries and lost. They were only later retrieved when folks like Newton found them in the works of the Islamic Philosophers and Islamic libraries, the largest in the world, places like Timbuktu that had over a million books.
Newton, wasn't primarily interested in physics at the beginning of his work but optics.
He searches and finds the works of Alhazen who studied optics at a level several hundred years in advance of the West using the Scientific Method
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The Arab physicist Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) used experimentation to obtain the results in his Book of Optics (1021). He combined observations, experiments and rational arguments to support his intromission theory of vision, in which rays of light are emitted from objects rather than from the eyes. He used similar arguments to show that the ancient emission theory of vision supported by Ptolemy and Euclid (in which the eyes emit the rays of light used for seeing), and the ancient intromission theory supported by Aristotle (where objects emit physical particles to the eyes), were both wrong.[28]
Experimental evidence supported most of the propositions in his Book of Optics and grounded his theories of vision, light and colour, as well as his research in catoptrics and dioptrics. His legacy was elaborated through the 'reforming' of his Optics by Kamal al-Din al-Farisi (d. c. 1320) in the latter's Kitab Tanqih al-Manazir (The Revision of [Ibn al-Haytham's] Optics).[29][30]
Alhazen viewed his scientific studies as a search for truth: "Truth is sought for its own sake. And those who are engaged upon the quest for anything for its own sake are not interested in other things. Finding the truth is difficult, and the road to it is rough. ...[31]
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There is an equally impressive line of Islamic Mathematicians who weren't doing "research" but establishing universal philosophic principles which are the foundation of modern math. The West didn't even have a decimal system and had to borrow that from the pre Islamic Arabs.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/122469
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