Talk:List of medieval European scientists

Title and scope
Following this discussion, I created this article to consolidate the overlapping material on "Great Scientists" from Science in the Middle_Agesand Science in Medieval Western Europe. I'm not certain its present geographic limitation is a good idea; a case could be made for including the medieval Greek and Islamic worlds which extended to North Africa and Western Asia. It seems worthwhile to discuss possible parameters for a limited expansion of this article to encompass those actively interacting scientific communities. --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 21:37, 14 August 2010 (UTC)


 * You've made a noble effort in creating this list. For my part, I've done a little here and there to expand it. Hopefully I can devote a bit more time to this to really flesh it out and include every relevant figure. Cheers. -- Pericles of Athens  Talk 18:33, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Article move
I have moved this page from "Medieval European scientists" to "List of medieval European scientists" as per the naming conventions of other list articles. For instance, List of Chinese inventions or List of Jewish mathematicians. If you are for whatever reason opposed to this move, speak here or forever hold your peace. ;) -- Pericles of Athens  Talk 18:31, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Hagia Sophia = the largest building?
About the architect of Hagia Sophia, the text states that the building was "the largest building in the world at its time". - I am very sure that this is an inaccurate assertion. Perhaps you meant it was the largest church in Eurasia for many centuries? En historiker (talk) 22:05, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

How to deal with scientists from outside Europe?
I just noticed that a substantial number of the Byzantine scientists mentioned in this article are from Syria, Egypt, or present-day Turkey (apparently only Paul of Aegina and Leo the Mathematician worked extensively in Europe). The two viable ways to deal with this would be to rename the article or delete most of the Byzantine scholars mentioned here. I favor renaming the article if someone could come up with a palatable name that isn't too open-ended. Medieval scientists writing in Greek or Latin is too narrow, as it would exclude European scientists writing in Arabic or Hebrew. Defining it in terms of the Mediterranean basin would rule out scientists from Northern Europe like Bede or Rabanus. Does anyone have a suggestion? --SteveMcCluskey (talk) 18:53, 10 August 2020 (UTC)