Talk:List of Byzantine scientists

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Comment: I think the purpose of this article is unclear (which begs the question of whether it should exist). If it is nothing but an arbitrary list of names then it should be removed. If it is intended to be a list of the greatest contributors to Byzantine science then each name should be accompanied by a short description of who they were and why their contribution mattered. In other words, each article should attempt to concretely educate on a specific topic. A list of names by itself does not really fit the bill.

Frankly a lot of these names are people whom it is stretch to call "scientists". That is, although they may have been schooled in scientific concepts not all of these people actually did anything scientific (i.e. did not invent, did not educate, did not theorize; if all they did was read a couple of books then that does not make them scientists).

--Mcorazao (talk) 17:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

are you referring to someone in particular? i agree though that we need to add some info for each one of them. As for them being or not scientists we are talking about medieval ages.. you shouldnt expect a scientific breakthrough; none of them has discovered unfortunately the theory of relativity. that doesnot make them though less important Ipodamos (talk)

Perhaps it would be better to rename the list to "List of Byzantine scholars", since "scientist" implies use of a scientific method, which few of them (if any) applied in their work. As pointed out, most of the persons listed created compilations of knowledge, and were, as such, excellent scholars, but did not actually discover anything new. Regards, Cplakidas (talk) 19:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)