ABSTRACT
Universities in the German-speaking region of Europe were relatively late in making their mark in the burgeoning interest in science and its assimilation. For having assimilated the rudiments of Muslim science, Sacrobosco was at the time considered the leading professor of mathematics at the University of Paris and the West's most famous astronomer. Testimony of the enduring, though diminishing, European respect for Muslim science is evident in Peurbach's popularization of Thabit ibn Qurra's theories of precession of the equinox. European society was being transformed from a landed feudal to a moneyed commercial economy. Islamic society had been earlier devolving into a military landholding economy, reminiscent of what Latin society was now leaving behind. Even during the latter half of the hypothetical period of parity, Islam was producing creative scientists and mathematicians. Mathematicians and astronomers were publishing treatises based on the old traditions right up until the end of the 18th century.
