Emergence of the scientific outlook (1): Arabs and experimentation

I don't find in Thomas Goldstein's statement that "the almost total decline of science in the early Middle Ages suggests that the most consistent and fertile scientific efforts are fueled by what we might call 'secularism', a curiosity about nature that finds its roots in a secular cultural climate, one in which direct perceptual play a central and fully recognized role." Science. Also, the Scholastic criticism of Aristotelian astronomy and physics "was not limited to the mere examination of Aristotelian proofs and highlighting what is sometimes behind them, or even compensated by other proofs and theories, but beyond that. The Escullae introduced new transformations into the Aristotelian scientific tradition, especially in the study of motion and the phenomenon of falling objects, which is known as the theory of impulsivity.[16] Even "if for certain reasons the Escullae remained unable to reject Aristotelian science altogether, they were alerted at least to its disadvantages and gaps, which would turn into viable research points. After the Middle Ages. The greatest new scientific theories of the 16th and 17th centuries find their origin in the embarrassments of the Stoics' critique of Aristotelian thought.[16] The Christian community has a contribution to make to science, as well as the Muslim community that was the link between the Greeks and the Middle Ages through its translation of Greek texts and later Europe's translation from Arabic, "Islam has pursued the Greek legacy." He gave a unifying force to knowledge, and regarded the pursuit of knowledge as a virtue; Christianity alone could not have caused science to flourish in the West in the 16th century. According to Bertrand Russell, "The Arabs were more inclined to experiment than the Greeks, especially in chemistry, as they hoped to convert cheap metals into gold, to discover the Philosopher's Stone, and to ride the elixir of life. This was one of the reasons for their appetite for chemical research. The idea of direct perceptualism and that "there was no room for scientific observation within the view of the early transcendental intermediate world"[17] versus "the Greek mind, which is the first mind to replace a mythical, or religious, view of the universe with rational explanations."[18] "Science seems to be growing less perceptive in cultures with a positive orientation toward the sense world, and it seems to be dissolving in cultures with a spiritual tendency, with a radical one."[19] From Bacon, through Descartes and Hobbes, to John Locke himself, it has been argued that the world derives its meaning and significance because it is reasonable. More: https://braheen.com/articles/science-scientism/نشأة-النظرة-العلمية-1 — Source: Published on Facebook's "Braheen Center" page