Talk:Theodosius' Spherics

Lost to Christendom?

The work's primary importance was in the restoration of Euclidean geometry to European knowledge, as this, and much other technology and philosophy, had been lost to Christendom, but preserved in Arabic translations during the Islamic Golden Age

Nearly all Greek works that are currently extant were preserved by the through the text tradition of the Byzantine Empire. While one could arguably call them not part of the 'West' you certainly can't exclude them from Christendom, and therefor none of those works were 'lost to Christendom'.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vrrm (talk • contribs) 09:45, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

I think this was likely copied from some source from a century ago or more. What they mean is something like "medieval Western Europeans did not know about this". –jacobolus (t) 20:05, 17 August 2023 (UTC)