Medieval Science
- Introduction of Arabic Numbers and Algebra
- The start of chemistry with alchemical interests
- Geography made progress because of commercial interests and Muslim maps.
- Medicine did not advance beyond the Muslims and the Greeks. At the first medical school, Salerno, the first teachers all came from Muslim countries.
- The academic emphasis was on the Arts and Humanities not the Sciences. All the great teachers of Middle Ages were professors of theology, e.g. Abelard, Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas